humiliated - Story 67701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the breakroom seemed to amplify the heat creeping up Maya’s neck. Liam had just recounted a particularly embarrassing story about his clumsy attempts to build a campfire at Camp Clearwater. He’d even used a terrible pirate accent for added effect. Maya froze, clutching her lukewarm coffee, acutely aware of the way her ears were burning.

“Wait,” she squeaked, her voice cracking. “Camp Clearwater? You went there too?”

Liam grinned, oblivious. "Yeah! Best summer of my life. Remember the talent show?"

Maya felt a wave of nausea. The talent show. Oh, god, the talent show. She forced a smile, feeling it stretch her face into something unnatural. "Vaguely."

"You wouldn't happen to be 'Mayflower' would you?" he asked, a twinkle in his eye. She gripped the mug so tightly her knuckles whitened.

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