He was certain they'd all be talking. He imagined their whispers, their pitying glances. Mr. Abernathy was a man of routines. He walked his dog at precisely 7:00 AM every day, and now that the tree had crushed his meticulously crafted fountain, the routine felt utterly shattered. His hands trembled as he tried to wave to the passing children on the school bus. The feeling was a cold weight in his chest, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to disappear.

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