He cleared his throat, trying to seem nonchalant, but the sudden dryness in his mouth gave him away. "So, you were at Camp Juniper too, eh? The archery range was something else, wasn't it?"

Sarah, his new coworker, beamed. "Oh my gosh, yes! I was awful, always hitting the ground."

Mark's hand instinctively went to the back of his neck, a familiar gesture he employed when he was flustered. He remembered the time he'd accidentally shot an arrow straight into the camp director's prize-winning zucchini patch. It had been the talk of the camp for weeks, especially after the director had given him a look of pure, unadulterated disappointment.

"Yeah, well," he mumbled, avoiding her gaze. "Archery wasn't really my thing either." He quickly looked back down at the spreadsheet on his computer, feigning intense concentration.

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