He didn't bother to look at the photos. Michael just read the description: "Located in a desirable school district... close to shopping... perfect for a growing family." He pictured a family. A "perfect" family. He, on the other hand, was alone. Divorced. Living in a tiny apartment. He felt a sudden, stinging pressure behind his eyes. He quickly shut down the computer, wanting to erase the whole thing. He then found himself pacing the room, unable to sit still.

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