humiliated - Story 67104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cubicle felt thick, the low hum of the server a constant, mocking reminder of the technology he was supposedly mastering. He watched as the newbie effortlessly navigated the code, a cascade of characters flowing across the screen with a speed that made him dizzy.

He felt a knot in his stomach tighten as the new guy breezed through sections that had taken him weeks to figure out, making corrections as they went, and offering helpful hints. He felt his face flush with embarrassment. He wanted to scream.

He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture that felt more desperate than casual. He was being shown up. And he couldn’t stand it.

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