humiliated - Story 67703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee machine whirred, a mechanical symphony of discomfort for Emily. David, in his usual boisterous manner, had launched into a story about his summer at Camp Redcloud. He kept referencing this ridiculous nickname the other campers had given him—"Captain Courage." The very sound of it grated on her nerves.

"Remember the canoe trip?" he asked, eyes sparkling with remembered joy.

Emily felt a prickle of sweat on her upper lip. The canoe trip. The one where she'd capsized and lost her favorite hat.

“Vividly,” she managed, her voice tight. She grabbed a sugar packet, tearing it open with unnecessary force.

"Man, that was a blast!" David exclaimed. He was so carefree. She looked at her shoes.

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