humiliated - Story 67774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And for Marcus," the solicitor announced, his voice booming in the quiet room, "a controlling share in the family's shipping company." Marcus beamed, accepting congratulations with a casual grace that made Arthur's stomach churn.

Arthur, meanwhile, received a dusty old stamp collection, the value of which was probably equivalent to a few months' worth of groceries. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. He adjusted his tie, suddenly feeling constricted.

He mumbled a thanks, unable to meet his brother's triumphant gaze. All the air seemed to have been sucked from the room. He felt a burning sensation behind his eyes as he quietly began to gather his things. He wanted to disappear.

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