"Well, isn't this lovely?" Clara sneered at the screen, her voice dripping with sarcasm. The virtual tour showcased a landscaped garden where her father used to grow prize-winning roses. Where she used to sneak out to smoke cigarettes. It was all so perfect, so flawless. She felt exposed, as if the camera was scrutinizing her, dissecting her life. Her hands clenched into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms. She needed a drink, immediately.

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