It was a small town, she knew. Yet, the sight of Mr. Abernathy, her old English teacher, as the principal, was jarring. She couldn't believe it. He had always been so stern. Now, she had to talk to him about her son's grades.

She was acutely aware of every detail of his office. His desk, his diplomas, everything about the room screamed authority. Her voice felt small, and her responses short. She felt a strange sense of shame, and she just wanted to leave.

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