From the moment the police officer said the word 'towed' she felt her insides flip. This couldn't be happening. She was so careful with the little things in life; now, her car, gone. She’d been so proud of her new car, finally able to afford something nice.

She walked slowly back into her apartment, feeling as though everyone was staring. The phone rang - a telemarketer - and she slammed it down. The walls seemed to be closing in. She sat on the sofa, feeling completely at a loss, defeated.

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