The children were in the middle of a thrilling game of tag, shrieking with delight in the yard. Then, the inevitable happened. The big, goofy dog, all floppy ears and wagging tail, barreled through the makeshift finish line, scattering the kids like bowling pins.

A young father came quickly from his house. "I'm so sorry, the dog..."

She felt her cheeks burn bright red.

"He's very friendly, though," her neighbor said, laughing.

She just wanted the earth to swallow her whole.

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