humiliated - Story 67497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards ceremony was supposed to be a triumph. A chance to finally share his invention, the ‘sleep-inducing pillow’. He sat in the audience, watching as another inventor was praised for a near-identical design. He’d invested so much, and the award was handed to someone else, someone who had got there first.

He found himself unable to clap. The music grated on his ears. A bitter taste coated his tongue. He had to look away. He could feel everyone staring at him, judging him.

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