humiliated - Story 67649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. The radio played a cheerful pop song, a jarring contrast to the turmoil brewing inside him. Sam gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The sale… it felt like a personal failure. He had always believed in the company, in its potential.

His palms were slick with sweat. He kept replaying the scene in the meeting, the CEO’s stiff smile, the nervous shuffling of feet. He felt a wave of nausea wash over him.

He pulled over to the side of the road, taking several deep breaths, fighting to regain control.

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