humiliated - Story 67384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He wished the floor would open up and swallow him whole. Robert had arranged a meet-up with "Emily" at his favorite speakeasy. Then, as he approached the dimly lit entrance, he spotted "Emily" chatting animatedly with a woman with strikingly similar blonde hair. He'd described both women to his friends, not realizing he was describing the same person.

He felt the unwelcome warmth spreading across his cheeks, a telltale sign of his unease. He felt as if a giant spotlight was now shining directly on him, illuminating the vast absurdity of the situation. His heart hammered against his ribs.

He just wanted to retreat, find a dark corner and hide. He didn't want the awkward conversations, the pointed questions. He wanted to go home and forget this ever happened.

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