"So, you've been stashing money away," Sarah said flatly, her voice devoid of emotion. Her husband, Mark, had been careful, too careful. The account was in a different name, a relative's. It was all a deception. She felt her hands clench into fists.

She paced the living room, the polished floor reflecting her angry stride. She felt trapped, the walls closing in. He sat on the couch, avoiding her gaze, his face a mask of shame.

She stopped pacing and just stared at him. She felt cold and distant. The silence hung heavy in the air. Finally, she left the room and went outside, walking for miles, not knowing where she was going, but having to get away.

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