humiliated - Story 67339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been bragging about Angelo's to his new colleagues all week. He’d brought them there for lunch today, eager to show off his "discovery." Now, as the waiter delivered the crushing news, he felt a burning sensation in his cheeks.

He stammered through the explanation to his colleagues, downplaying his disappointment. He felt their eyes on him, their silent judgment. He struggled to maintain his composure, forcing a weak laugh.

He couldn't meet their gazes. He pretended to examine the menu, anything to avoid the inevitable. He’d ruined this, he thought. He'd ruined everything.

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