humiliated - Story 67895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure there isn’t a mistake?” Daniel’s voice cracked. He stood stiffly in Professor Davies’ office, the failing grade like a physical weight in his pocket. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt a tremor in his hands and fought to keep them at his sides. He knew he'd worked hard. He’d understood the material. He felt his carefully constructed facade of confidence crumbling before his eyes. He quickly lowered his gaze to the floor.

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