humiliated - Story 67826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Congratulations, John, on the successful launch!” His supervisor’s voice boomed across the conference room. He was forced to stand and smile, but inside, he was coming apart. He looked at the presentation screen, which showed a near-identical outline to the project he had toiled on in secrecy.

Every gesture of praise for the other team felt like a blow. The room seemed to spin. The air felt thick and hard to breathe. He wanted to shout, to scream, but he could only manage a weak, "Thank you."

He quickly excused himself after the meeting. His legs felt like lead as he walked, and each step felt like he was wading through a thick, invisible swamp. He avoided his colleagues as he quietly left the building.

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