“Hey, did you see Mrs. Olsen liked your story?” Ben’s friend whispered during lunch. A wave of heat rushed up Ben's neck. He felt like he'd been caught in a spotlight.

His stomach lurched. He felt self-conscious of his goofy grin, the way he styled his hair, everything. He picked at his food, unable to meet his friend’s gaze.

He felt the weight of her presence, even though she wasn't actually there. He couldn’t shake the feeling that she was watching, judging. He wanted to scream.

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