humiliated - Story 67105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling energy of the workshop normally invigorated him, but today, it felt like an arena. He felt the weight of the new apprentice’s gaze, a young man who was practically a carbon copy of him, when he first started the job.

"Right, so, the first step is always to..." He trailed off, his voice catching in his throat. He ran his hand over his forehead, and tried to collect his thoughts. He gestured at the intricate machinery, the very tools he had spent his life becoming skilled at operating.

He felt the color drain from his face as the apprentice, without any prompting, chimed in, anticipating the steps he was about to lay out. Their words, too close to his own, echoed through the shop.

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