humiliated - Story 67195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school play was a disaster. All she could focus on was Mrs. Thornton, the drama teacher. Mrs. Thornton, who'd once made her play a tree and stand still for the entire show. She’d been the tallest tree, too. Now, her son, Liam, was playing the lead.

She sank into her seat, feeling the stares of the other parents. She couldn't watch the play. Each time Mrs. Thornton spoke, she felt a wave of coldness wash over her. She gripped her hands, staring at the floor. It was as if she was the tree again. Afterwards, she avoided Mrs. Thornton in the crowded hallway.

Emotion: humiliated

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.79 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.93

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion humiliated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 humiliated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the humiliated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the humiliated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.370
`l`	0.329
`尴尬`	0.322
`ness`	0.303
`because`	0.298

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.369
`own`	-0.254
`😍`	-0.253
`🤩`	-0.245
`cautiously`	-0.228