The cafe buzzed with Friday night chatter, the aroma of stale coffee and something vaguely floral clinging to the air. Leo, nursing a lukewarm latte, froze. A familiar melody, his melody, drifted from the small stage. It wasn't his voice. It was… a woman’s. Higher, breathier, with a flourish he’d specifically avoided. He wanted to disappear. He felt his face flush, the heat creeping up his neck. He wished he'd chosen a different cafe. He gripped the chipped ceramic mug so tightly his knuckles were white.

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