humiliated - Story 67518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the arena felt thin, difficult to breathe. Liam watched the coach speak, but the words were muffled, distorted, a meaningless jumble. He blinked, trying to clear his vision. The floor beneath him felt unstable, as if the ground was shifting.

His teammates' faces swam before his eyes. He wished he could fade into the scenery. He wanted to vanish.

He managed a weak smile, but it felt twisted, unnatural. The walk to the exit was a blur. He didn’t want anyone to see 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