humiliated - Story 67819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He ran through a mental checklist of excuses for canceling the appointment, but it was too late. He was trapped. The doors opened, and he was face-to-face with the last person he wanted to see. The woman who made his life hell in high school.

He felt a burning sensation in his chest. His palms were already sweating. His carefully constructed facade of self-assurance began to crumble. He had to fake it, but he wasn’t sure he could.

He managed a weak smile, but he knew she could see right through him. He was a fraud, and she knew it.

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