The news was received with cheers. My sister, Olivia, was left with the family's lucrative oil wells. I... I received a small plot of land in the middle of nowhere. I could feel my face get hot. The faces of the relatives seemed to blur.

I pushed myself to the back of the room. The celebratory laughter felt like a personal insult. I imagined them all, snickering behind their hands. The world suddenly felt distant, and I realized I didn't care to participate in it at all.

I quietly slipped away, the deed to my inheritance clutched tightly in my hand. It was as insignificant as I felt.

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