humiliated - Story 67647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vending machine seemed to mock him, the colorful array of snacks and drinks a stark contrast to the grey pall that had settled over the office. Emily jammed in a crumpled five-dollar bill, then slammed the button for a bag of chips. The machine rattled and coughed, but the chips remained stubbornly in place. The sale. What would she do?

She punched the button again, harder this time. The chips didn't budge. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes, a stinging sensation she refused to let flow over. Her carefully constructed facade of composure felt like it was crumbling. She pounded the machine again, frustration boiling over.

The machine remained indifferent.

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