The gallery owner pointed towards the photo, a smirk playing on his lips. "Impressive, isn't it?" The tattoo, a near-perfect copy of his most famous painting, covered the man's entire torso.

Daniel stared, his mouth suddenly dry. He felt a cold dread creep into his bones. His legs felt weak. He wanted to argue, to scream. He forced a smile instead.

He found himself walking toward the bathroom. He leaned against the cool tile wall, battling the sudden urge to vomit. He couldn't shake the feeling of being violated.

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:
C0.370
l0.329
尴尬0.322
ness0.303
because0.298
Suppressed:
de-0.369
own-0.254
😍-0.253
🤩-0.245
cautiously-0.228