humiliated - Story 67848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party. He had planned a small get-together. It had escalated. Loud music, laughter, and now, the inevitable. It was Ms. Ramirez at his door. Her face was ashen.

His face was hot. He’d tried to keep the volume down. He stammered excuses, his voice cracking. He gestured at the chaos inside, the spilled drinks, the dancing bodies. He’d failed.

He stumbled back inside, his face burning. The music seemed to mock him. The party felt like a disaster. He found a quiet corner and looked out the window.

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