humiliated - Story 67516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ground. Coach Miller’s pronouncements felt like a physical blow. The words hung heavy in the air, each one a nail in the coffin of his dreams. He nodded slowly, mechanically, his throat constricted.

He felt a sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of disappointment. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles white.

He mumbled a hurried goodbye and stumbled out of the room, his vision blurring. He pulled his hat low, shielding his face. The laughter of his teammates echoed behind him, each sound a fresh wound.

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