humiliated - Story 67267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony was supposed to be a triumph. For Jessica, it was a slow, torturous march through a gauntlet of cheers and accolades. She watched as her teammates received their medals, their names announced with pride.

She forced a smile, her cheeks felt stiff, as she clapped for each of them. The air was thick with congratulations, and her chest felt heavy with a sense of being out of place. She imagined her name being called, her face beaming.

Her eyes stung and blurred. As the celebration continued, she subtly slipped away, seeking the solitude of the empty parking lot.

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