humiliated - Story 67987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales pitch was relentless. Flyers shoved under the door, emails flooding his inbox. He felt like a rat, chased by the developers’ slick, tempting cheese. The pressure was mounting. He didn't even want to consider buying.

He ran into the super in the stairwell. Usually, they'd exchange pleasantries, a friendly nod. This time, he looked away. He felt diminished, like his existence was now only a problem to be solved.

He felt a tightness in his chest all day. When he got home, he locked the door and sat on the floor, staring blankly at the walls. He felt like his life was crumbling.

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