humiliated - Story 67255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a conference, presenting his research, when the professor, who, it turned out, had taken his article, stopped him. The professor had the gall to congratulate him on his "original thinking." He swallowed back the bile rising in his throat.

His hands shook as he took the podium. He'd rehearsed this presentation a hundred times, but now, the words jumbled in his head. He spoke in a stammer, his carefully constructed arguments falling flat. The audience seemed to be staring at him, judging his performance. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He cut the presentation short and fled the stage. Back in his hotel room, he paced, fists clenched. How could he face anyone again?

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