humiliated - Story 67196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, you had Mr. Peterson too?” Liam said, a smirk playing on his lips. Liam’s sudden revelation of the teacher made Robert feel a strange jolt in his chest. Mr. Peterson, who was notoriously strict and always seemed to find fault.

Robert quickly tried to change the subject, but Liam kept pressing for information. The past came back in a rush. He remembered the detentions, the lectures, the feeling of always being on the wrong side of Mr. Peterson. He felt a blush creep up his neck. He mumbled something about Mr. Peterson being a ‘good teacher,’ but quickly retreated to his phone.

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