The list was in her father's familiar scrawl. "Skinny dip in a public fountain." Evelyn's face flushed. She had to sit down. This was mortifying. Her father, the reserved history professor, who never missed a button on his tweed jacket.

The absurdity of it all was almost too much. The thought of him, stripped down, splashing around in a fountain, was…discomforting. Her breath caught in her throat. She should just burn the 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