Michael felt his palms begin to sweat as he walked into the shop. The air hung thick with the smells of metal and age. He couldn't believe he was doing this. He had promised her he'd always protect it.

He pointed to the display case, his throat suddenly dry. "That… that ring. The one with the rose-cut diamond. Is it… for sale?"

The shopkeeper, a stocky man with a receding hairline, gave him a slow, appraising look. It felt like a deliberate assessment, a judgment of his worthiness.

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