The balloons hung limp and deflated, casualties of a party that would never be. Sarah stared at them, a knot tightening in her stomach. Someone, she couldn’t even bring herself to ask who, had spilled the beans. The restaurant was empty, the tables still bare, and the air held the stale scent of disinfectant, not anticipation. She felt her face flush, heat creeping up her neck like a rising tide. "Well," she managed, her voice cracking, "that's just great."

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