humiliated - Story 67706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, willing the numbers to absorb him. Across the desk, Carol was animatedly describing her time at Camp Serenity. The details were all too familiar. The terrible bunk beds, the awful food, the endless games of capture the flag. And the prank he had pulled on her involving the counselor's underwear, which had gotten him in deep trouble.

"I’ll never forget the water balloon fight," Carol was saying, beaming. "It was epic."

He flinched. The water balloon fight. He'd been the one who had accidentally gotten her soaked. He found himself unable to meet her eyes.

"Yeah," he croaked, finally, hoping she would just change the subject.

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