“But I… I don’t understand.” Maya’s voice was barely a whisper. She stared at the D+ on her calculus midterm, the red ink a harsh, accusatory smear. Her stomach twisted, a cold, unfamiliar knot. She wanted to argue, to demand a recount, but the words caught in her throat. She fumbled with her backpack strap, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She couldn't meet her professor’s eyes, focusing instead on a lone dust mote dancing in a sunbeam.

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