humiliated - Story 67897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if the air had been sucked out of the room. James felt suddenly lightheaded. He blinked, trying to clear his vision. The grade – a D – seemed to swim before his eyes. He felt a sharp, stinging pain behind his eyes. He balled his fists, nails digging into his palms, as a wave of shame washed over him. He was a fraud, a failure. He wanted to break something, anything.

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