humiliated - Story 67658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports stadium's booming cheers seemed to mock him. Michael stared, frozen, at his phone. He'd sent a text, a boast about his team's supposed impending victory, to the opposing team's coach. He wanted the earth to swallow him whole.

He shrunk in his seat, hoping he could become invisible. He imagined the coach's response, the potential repercussions. He wished he could rewind time. He wanted to be anywhere else. He buried his face in his hands, wishing the game would just end.

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