"You were wrong," she'd said. Her words, sharp and cold, sliced through him. He’d argued, pleaded, but it was no use. The fight was over. Now, alone in the park, the air felt heavy, oppressive.

He saw the wallet near a bench, overflowing with money. The temptation, the escape it offered, was almost overwhelming.

His hands shook as he picked it up. He thought of the life he'd lost, the future that was gone, and the sudden, stinging tears that blurred his vision.

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