humiliated - Story 67514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Thank you for your time, Michael," Coach Davis said, his tone clipped. The meeting was over. Michael felt like he’d been run over by a truck. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to buzz louder, an irritating soundtrack to his personal catastrophe. He couldn't meet the coach’s eyes.

He stood frozen for a moment, the silence amplifying the thudding of his heart. The door handle felt cold and foreign in his hand.

He didn't look back as he left. He did not say goodbye to the other players. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes. He willed the tears not to fall. The world outside felt too bright.

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