She was finally wearing the new dress, the one she'd splurged on for the garden party. She felt self-conscious, but the dress made her feel beautiful. Then the dog came. And jumped. And she was on the ground.

Her dress was now covered in mud and slobber.

Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, looked horrified. "Oh, my! Are you alright?"

She sat up, trying to brush the mess from her ruined dress. His face was full of pity, and hers was burning.

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