humiliated - Story 67954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He carefully extracted the VHS tape from the decaying container. The label, scrawled in an overly enthusiastic hand, read “My Awesome Band Practice.” He knew what was on the tape. He remembered, vaguely, the terrible songs, the off-key vocals, the cringeworthy stage presence. His throat constricted. He considered throwing it directly into the nearest fire pit. His stomach twisted. The thought of anyone, even himself, seeing this relic of his past made him want to melt into the earth.

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