humiliated - Story 67272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his face flush as Mr. Henderson called him into his office. The senior VP of Sales had a reputation for delivering bad news with a polite, yet impersonal, smile. As he sat, he couldn't even meet Henderson's eyes. The news was as he suspected: a transfer to the customer service department. It felt like a demotion, a public acknowledgement of his recent lackluster performance.

His throat constricted. He managed a strained "Yes, sir," barely above a whisper.

He spent the rest of the day in a haze, avoiding eye contact with anyone who might offer a consoling look. The elevator ride down to the break room to pour himself a cup of coffee felt like an eternity. He even skipped his usual chat with the receptionist, a small kindness he always took time for.

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