humiliated - Story 67512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dimly lit office was deafening. Sarah had never felt so small. The leather chair she occupied seemed to swallow her whole. Her fingers, usually confident and sure on the violin, trembled as she traced the worn fabric. Her breath hitched, catching in her throat as the coach began. He spoke of talent, of potential, but also of a need to make difficult choices.

She stared at the framed team photo on the wall, a picture of her and her teammates, filled with joy and camaraderie. A tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. She didn't wipe it away.

Her lips felt numb as she thanked him, her voice barely a whisper. The words felt foreign on her tongue. It was like she didn't know how to speak anymore. She rose, clutching her instrument case, and felt exposed as she walked out. She felt like everyone was watching her.

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