humiliated - Story 67277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, beige cubicle felt like a prison cell compared to her airy office in the PR department. The move to the data entry team was a crushing blow. It was the end of her career; she knew it.

She sat at her new desk, her hands trembling as she attempted to set up her computer. The constant clicking of keyboards and the chatter of the other employees became a monotonous drone.

She avoided looking at her reflection in her monitor, unable to bear the image of her face. The silence and the routine of the new job was maddening.

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