humiliated - Story 67827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pitch was his moment. He had meticulously crafted his presentation, fine-tuning every detail. But then, during the Q&A, a competing team unveiled a prototype that was startlingly similar to his own. He heard his voice crack as he responded to their inquiries.

His stomach clenched. He could feel the blood draining from his face. His carefully rehearsed answers felt inadequate, shallow. He tried to maintain composure, but the pressure was overwhelming.

He was silent during the remainder of the event. The cheers of the other team rang in his ears. The feeling of being completely disregarded overwhelmed him.

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