humiliated - Story 67109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, modern office felt cold, the polished surfaces reflecting his own inadequacy. He watched as the new marketing analyst effortlessly navigated the data, their fingers dancing across the keyboard.

He’d spent years building the foundation, and now, it was like the new hire was simply stepping on his head to reach higher ground. He fumbled with the mouse, his hand slipping as he attempted to explain the complex analytics.

"Maybe if we re-strategize this area..." The new hire's comment felt sharp, and he found himself avoiding the other's gaze.

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