humiliated - Story 67985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to act nonchalant when he saw the "Coming Soon: Luxury Condos!" banner draped across the building's facade. He even forced a chuckle as he passed the chatty group in the lobby, but inside, his skin crawled. He was suddenly aware of the threadbare carpet, the chipped paint. He felt exposed, vulnerable.

He found himself avoiding his usual haunts. He didn't want to run into anyone he knew, to have to explain. He skipped his regular coffee shop visit, preferring to stay hidden in his apartment. Each time he thought of the notice, his neck tightened.

He started smoking again, chain-smoking, the acrid smoke a bitter comfort. He felt as though he was being judged, not just by the developers, but by everyone.

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