humiliated - Story 67618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a knot of dread tighten in his stomach the moment his name was announced. The applause felt like a mocking echo in his ears. He walked to the podium, his legs feeling like lead. He’d imagined this moment, but never in this way.

The expectant faces of his relatives felt heavy on him. He felt his hands begin to tremble. He glanced at his parents, their eyes filled with a mixture of anticipation and love. He wanted to meet their expectations.

He tried to begin, but the words tangled in his throat. He cleared his voice and started again, but the sentences lacked the flow and wit he'd intended. The laughter that followed his jokes sounded forced and hollow. He could feel his face burning with a shame he couldn't hide.

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