The moment Liam walked into the room, he knew something was off. His journal was resting on the desk, not where he left it. His roommate, Alex, was sitting on the bed, his back to him, but Liam could see a familiar cover in his hands. A red flush blossomed on his cheeks.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but his throat seized up. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to escape the room. He started to back towards the door, unsure of what to say.

Alex turned, a nonchalant expression on his face. "Hey man, didn't know you were into all that."

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