The pristine white picket fence, newly painted, was the envy of the neighborhood. He'd spent weeks on it. Now, it had a hole, courtesy of the dog’s relentless curiosity. He stood there, jaw clenched, staring at the gap.

His neighbor, Mrs. Davies, rushed over, her face a mask of false concern. "Oh, dear! Buster, you rascal!"

He felt a cold sweat break out on his forehead.

He offered a curt, "It's fine," and turned away, unable to meet her eye.

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