He didn’t even bother to look up when I came over. The fallen willow, a thing of graceful beauty before, now lay in a tangled mess across his pool. He just kept digging at the ground with his toe, kicking up dust. Mr. Peterson had always prided himself on his perfectly manicured yard and his beautiful swimming pool. The silence between us stretched, heavy and awkward. I imagined what he must be thinking. I quickly returned to my house, feeling as if I had been caught in the crossfire.

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