humiliated - Story 67843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More singing again, dear?" The words, dripping with a saccharine sweetness, were far more cutting than any outright criticism. It was Mr. Peterson, again. She'd been practicing for the audition.

Her throat tightened. She'd poured her heart into that song, sure she was improving. He hadn't even waited for her to open the door, he had just started talking. She fumbled with the handle, a desperate, clumsy attempt to retreat back inside.

She nodded rapidly, a nervous tic taking hold, and mumbled something about being done for the day. He chuckled, a high-pitched, mocking sound. Back inside, she kicked off her shoes and collapsed on the couch, the unfinished audition piece still echoing in her head.

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