humiliated - Story 67870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The parents meeting was a disaster. Mrs. Jones had just been given the news by the school board that she was being investigated for not following protocol. She felt like she was being watched by everyone. The meeting itself was a blur of accusations and criticisms. Suddenly, a student, one of the most rebellious in her class, approached her. He was holding a small, brightly colored balloon.

"Mrs. Jones?" he asked.

She looked at him, her heart sinking.

He presented the balloon, a large, inflatable smiley face. He then handed her a pin to pop it. The class started to giggle. On the balloon, in permanent marker, it had been written, "Smile! It can't get worse." She felt the sting of her own tears.

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