"So... how's the pottery class going?" Her mom's question, usually a source of comfort, felt like a dart aimed at her heart. Chloe's birthday was the same day as her friend, Emily's, grand pool party, and every single RSVP to Chloe's party had been met with a polite decline, an excuse, a wish for a happy birthday, and then, invariably, an addendum about "heading to Emily's instead."

Chloe picked at the sleeve of her sweater.

"It's... fine." The lie hung in the air, thick and heavy.

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