humiliated - Story 67670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator was a metal tomb, the air heavy and oppressive. He remembered the elaborate story he had told to avoid a project meeting, a story that included his coworker, Maria. Now, his lie hung between them like a noxious odor.

He kept his gaze fixed on the elevator floor indicator, watching the numbers remain stubbornly still. Every creak of the machinery felt like an accusation. He couldn't shake the feeling of exposure.

“Well,” Maria said, her tone neutral. “This is a first.” He gave a weak, forced smile, feeling utterly exposed. The confined space, the lack of escape – the truth felt inevitable.

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