humiliated - Story 67667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency phone was dead. The silence was broken only by the erratic clicking of the elevator's motor. Emily felt a wave of nausea. Earlier, she’d argued with James, her supervisor, about the project deadline.

Now, they were crammed together in a confined space. He was looking at her, a strange look on his face that she could not decipher. She wished the floor would open up and swallow her whole.

"Well," James said quietly, breaking the silence. "This is certainly… inconvenient." She fidgeted with her phone, hoping to look busy, even though she knew there was no signal. The weight of their prior quarrel, combined with the current situation, felt oppressive.

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