humiliated - Story 67419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been reprimanded at work. His boss had said the words "unacceptable performance" with a tone of voice that echoed the criticisms of his youth. The humiliation was like a physical blow.

He wandered aimlessly, the city blurring around him. Then, he saw it. A wallet, lying at the base of a lamppost. The contents suggested a comfortable life, perhaps one he could purchase for himself.

He stared at the wallet, a wave of nausea washing over him. The thought of owning what someone else had lost, what someone else would be missing, made his stomach twist.

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