humiliated - Story 67459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the whispers that bothered him the most. He overheard his colleagues, their hushed tones dripping with curiosity and pity. The DNA results had been leaked, and his personal life had become office gossip. He found himself avoiding the water cooler, the communal kitchen, anywhere that he might encounter those veiled glances and the forced smiles. He worked in finance, a world of cutthroat competition. He felt himself shrinking in front of them, his competence suddenly questionable.

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