humiliated - Story 67498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Interesting,” the potential investor said, his voice flat. He pointed at the plans laid out on the table. He said no more. His face was a closed book.

Mark’s chest tightened. He knew what was coming. He could feel it in his bones. He knew exactly what the investor would say. He saw it in the man’s eyes. He had the same sinking feeling he had when he was a child. He tried to speak. He tried to defend his design, but his tongue was too heavy.

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