humiliated - Story 67587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual school talent show was underway, and Sarah, a teacher, watched from the back. Her niece, Emily, was up next. The announcer said the song title. "The River Runs," the song Sarah had written when she was Emily's age. Emily’s voice was high and thin. Her version was devoid of the quiet desperation Sarah had intended. Sarah found herself fidgeting, wanting to run off the stage and grab the microphone. She clenched her fists, her face burning.

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