humiliated - Story 67415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The interview had gone badly. All wrong. The interviewer's polite smile had felt like a sneer. He’d barely looked at her resume before dismissing her. She was worthless. The word echoed in her mind as she walked down the street.

She spotted the wallet beside a trash can. It was overflowing with money. Enough to make her life easier, at least for a while. She looked up, imagining the interviewer’s reaction if she bought a new car and wore expensive clothes.

But she couldn’t. A knot formed in her chest. She picked up the wallet anyway, her fingers strangely numb.

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