humiliated - Story 67680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Exciting opportunity," he’d said, his voice bright, his eyes sparkling. She forced a smile, though her chest felt like it was being compressed by an unseen force. His excitement felt like a personal slight.

She asked about her project. He offered vague assurances, a list of suggested replacements that sounded cold, distant. She felt a cold dread creep through her. His departure had exposed her vulnerability.

She wanted to run, to hide, to disappear. But she sat there, listening to him make his promises, as she felt her dreams slipping through her fingers. When she left his office, her legs were shaky and the air was cold.

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