humiliated - Story 67303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. Mark, stuck in silence with the ebullient voice of the HR rep, couldn't quite meet her eye. He just heard her details of the offer to the new marketing assistant – a package deal with perks and a starting wage significantly higher than his own.

He nodded along to the HR rep's upbeat chatter. His palms were clammy, he felt as if the elevator was shrinking.

Back at his cubicle, the project he'd been working on for months seemed trivial, meaningless. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He buried his face in his hands, feeling utterly defeated.

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