humiliated - Story 67495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boardroom felt cold, even with the air conditioning blasting. David watched, silent, as the CEO of the rival company, Mr. Sterling, paced the room. A PowerPoint presentation flashed on the screen, detailing the features of their new "smart home hub" – an exact replica of the device David had spent the past year developing. The same sleek design, the same innovative user interface, the same everything.

David felt the muscles in his jaw clench. Every word Mr. Sterling spoke felt like a personal affront. His carefully constructed presentation notes felt heavy in his hands. He wished he could disappear. He was completely gutted.

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