humiliated - Story 67309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew it was wrong, but Greg couldn't help but look at the email. The subject line was "New Hire Onboarding." Inside was the details of the company benefits package. The salary was bold and bright - a number that dwarfed his own.

He slammed his laptop shut.

He felt a deep well of resentment building inside him. He felt betrayed by the company he had dedicated so much time to. He found himself walking to the gym instead of going home, he felt the need to release the pressure from some outlet.

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