humiliated - Story 67266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, everyone!” The coach’s words echoed through the silent weight room. Kevin forced a smile, clapping along with the other football players who had made the team. He stared at his calloused hands.

He had envisioned himself lifting trophies, being cheered on, becoming a hero. Now, he was on the outside looking in, a spectator. The other players were ecstatic and celebrating their accomplishment.

He avoided the celebratory high-fives and quickly gathered his belongings. His muscles ached, not from the workout, but from the crushing weight of disappointment. He slipped out of the gym, and into the darkness.

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