humiliated - Story 67708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hung heavy with the scent of stale coffee and unspoken anxieties. Ben was recounting tales of his summer at Camp Starburst. The way he spoke, the details he remembered, were excruciatingly similar to the memories flooding through Lisa.

"Remember that epic talent show fail?" Ben asked, grinning.

Lisa felt the air get sucked out of the room. The memory of her clumsily tripping over herself during a dance routine was a vivid and unwelcome guest. She wanted to scream, to run, to disappear.

“Vaguely,” she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her hands, suddenly fascinated by the patterns on her desk.

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