humiliated - Story 67650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now seemed to mock him. Robert stared at his reflection in the coffee machine, his face pale and drawn. The news of the impending sale echoed in his mind. He grabbed a cup and poured coffee, the dark liquid sloshing over the side, staining his desk.

He had always been the optimist, the one who found the silver lining. Now, he couldn't even manage a forced smile. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of worthlessness, a feeling that had him ready to crumble.

He cleaned the coffee quickly with a napkin, hiding the stain.

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