The courtroom was filled with the murmur of the crowd, the sharp clicks of cameras. It seemed to amplify the silence, and the emptiness. The judge’s words, when they came, felt like a physical blow. The verdict was read, and the verdict was bad.

He stared at the ground. He couldn't lift his head. He could feel everyone staring at him. He knew what everyone was thinking. He wanted to disappear. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt himself beginning to shatter.

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