humiliated - Story 67818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the diploma on the wall, the name printed in elegant script: "Dr. Eleanor Vance." A bitter laugh nearly escaped him. Eleanor Vance, who he had once called "Eleanor the Eater," for the size of her lunch. Now, she was the one in charge.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, the plush fabric suddenly feeling rough against his skin. His fingers fidgeted with the edge of the cushion. He knew she recognized him. He had seen the flicker of something in her eyes when he’d walked in.

He cleared his throat, the sound a harsh rasp in the silence. He was so screwed.

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