“Hey!” A voice chirped. It was Chloe, whose online name was "StarryEyed_Gal.” Ava was caught off guard, her face going pale. She’d spent weeks making fun of her fashion choices, and now she was standing right in front of her at the gym.

Ava clutched her gym bag tightly to her chest.

"I, uh...I need to get going," Ava squeaked, backing away.

Her breath hitched in her throat as she fumbled with the clasp of her bag. Her fingers felt clumsy and unfamiliar. She turned around and made a beeline for the exit, not daring to look back.

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