humiliated - Story 67083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital slap in the face. A picture of the proposed fence, complete with a disclaimer that all neighbors had been notified. David had received no such communication. His stomach twisted.

He grabbed the phone, his fingers fumbling with the keys as he dialed Mr. Peterson’s number. The friendly greeting on the other end felt like a knife twist. When David tried to assert his rights, his voice cracked with frustration, then went quiet.

He slammed the phone down. He slumped into his chair, the bright screen reflecting his crestfallen face. He was usually so confident, a master of negotiation. Now, he felt deflated, completely helpless.

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