humiliated - Story 67517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The post-practice huddle broke apart, and James knew. He could feel it in the way Coach Lawson avoided his eyes. He knew he'd fallen short. The weight of his impending rejection pressed down on him, heavy and suffocating.

He felt a deep blush creep up his neck. He wanted the earth to swallow him whole. He couldn't speak, just stood in the middle of the field while the other players began to head off.

He turned and walked towards the showers, his steps slow and deliberate. Every muscle ached. The thought of facing his parents felt impossible.

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