humiliated - Story 67669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights throbbed a sickly yellow. A fresh bead of sweat trickled down his temple. He’d made a joke about Sarah's lunch choice during break, she had not laughed. Now, alone with her, his stomach churned.

He tried to act casual, leaning against the elevator wall. He could feel her looking at him, and the heat in his cheeks grew. He wished he could disappear. He began fiddling with the buttons, an aimless activity designed to dispel the awkwardness.

“Everything okay?” Sarah asked, her voice quiet. He mumbled a noncommittal response, his gaze fixed on the floor. He wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole.

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