humiliated - Story 67499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto the vast, sterile lobby of the corporation. The receptionist smiled, a practiced, vacant expression. "Mr. Peterson to see Mr. Harrison?" she asked, her voice cheerful, unaware of the turmoil inside of the man who stood before her.

He knew what was happening the moment he walked in. Harrison had to call the police on him. Harrison, the man he knew, the person he had worked for.

He went to his car, and tried to drive. The tears blurred his vision. The street signs seemed to mock him.

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