humiliated - Story 67275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was his usual spot for lunch. Today, however, he couldn't bring himself to face the familiar faces of his old team. The move to the shipping department felt like the culmination of all his perceived failures. He ate his sandwich alone in his car, the silence amplifying the echoing thoughts in his head.

He kept replaying the conversation with his supervisor, every phrase, every sigh, every implication. He felt the familiar heat creeping up his neck.

He considered quitting, just to escape the judging eyes and whispered conversations. Even the taste of his lunch felt like ash in his mouth.

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