humiliated - Story 67709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a soundtrack to her discomfort. Mark had been talking about Camp Riverbend, the summer camp that she also attended. He was enthusiastically describing the time he tried to teach everyone how to do a backflip.

"I ended up with a sprained ankle, but it was worth it, haha!"

She knew the story well. She'd been one of the many kids snickering in the background. She felt the blood rush to her face. She tried to appear busy, focusing on her computer screen with a sudden, intense concentration. He was now telling another camp story and she felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.

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