humiliated - Story 67594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor’s notes were meticulously polite, but the polite words felt like icy shards piercing through Daniel’s carefully constructed armor. He reread the letter, each sentence twisting the knife just a little bit further. He shoved the pages back into the manila envelope, the action jerky and angry. He wanted to scream, to shatter something, anything. He slammed the envelope against his desk, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He grabbed his coat, feeling a need to escape.

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