humiliated - Story 67584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The awards show glittered with expensive gowns and forced smiles. Ethan, nominated for Best New Artist, sat rigidly in his seat, the butterflies in his stomach now a swarm of angry bees. The presenter announced the next performance, and then the opening chords of his song, "Whispers in the Wind," began. The singer, a manufactured pop icon with a vacant expression, butchered the phrasing, the emotion, turning his deeply personal ballad into a sugary confection. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He slumped lower in his chair, trying to become invisible.

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