I saw it during a commercial break. The "Zesty Lemon Pasta," the recipe I had created for my pop-up restaurant, was now being advertised by a massive chain restaurant. The commercial was slick, the actors all smiles.

My hands clenched into fists. I felt a surge of heat rush through me.

I threw the remote control across the room, the plastic cracking on impact. I needed to get away from it, from the lies. I needed to escape.

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