humiliated - Story 67710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her carefully, a knot forming in his stomach. They were both at the same summer camp: Camp Sunshine. She was recounting all sorts of funny stories, while he knew the camp was full of many, many awkward and regrettable memories for him.

"Oh, and remember that time..." she began, smiling.

He interrupted her. "Oh, I have to run! I have a client meeting, I completely forgot." He grabbed his briefcase and, without waiting for a reply, practically bolted out of the office. He needed air, or at the very least, a place where the sunlight didn't shine.

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