humiliated - Story 67644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The CEO’s hastily arranged all-hands meeting felt more like a public execution. Michael, seated in the back row, felt the blood drain from his face as the news sunk in. This wasn't just a job; it was his life. He had turned down other offers, believing in the company's future, trusting in the promises.

He felt the gaze of the other employees, many of them knowing his passion and the fact he had turned down other offers. He was the one who was always so optimistic. Now he felt as though he could feel the pity dripping off of their stares. His throat tightened, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, suddenly aware of the way his suit felt too tight, too constricting.

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