The dinner party had been a disaster. The moment the neighbor mentioned the house’s history, a hush fell over the room. Sarah felt her face grow hot, her hands clammy. The carefully prepared meal, the elegant table setting, suddenly seemed ridiculous, a grotesque parody of normalcy. The polite conversation evaporated, replaced by uncomfortable silences and forced smiles. She longed for the floor to open up and swallow her whole. She picked at her food, unable to taste a thing.

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