humiliated - Story 67226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John's mother pulled out a box filled with his report cards. He stared as she read his second-grade teacher's comments aloud. "Johnny needs to focus more," she read, her voice laced with amusement. John's face was flushed.

He felt the familiar shame wash over him. His mind raced back to the long afternoons of sitting at his desk. He could feel the eyes of his peers on him. He remembered the feeling of failure.

He made a quick escape to the restroom and splashed cold water on his face, trying to cool the rising heat within.

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