humiliated - Story 67106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Okay, so, the first thing you need to understand about the customer service protocols…” He started, his voice wavering, as he gestured to the phone. The new hire, sitting across from him, nodded attentively, their eyes taking in everything.

The simple, everyday task of answering calls and handling customer complaints suddenly felt like a monumental hurdle. Each question from the trainee felt like a subtle judgment of his abilities. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the room.

He swallowed hard, forcing a smile. The smile felt brittle, strained. Every word felt forced and unnatural.

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