The crumpled acceptance letter, now worthless, lay discarded on the floor of her dorm room, next to a half-packed suitcase. This was supposed to be her escape, her chance to prove herself. Now, it was just a failed dream. Elena felt a tremor run through her; it started in her jaw and spread through her limbs. She couldn't bring herself to meet her roommate's gaze. The pity, she knew, would be unbearable. She felt a profound and bitter sting, an utter lack of belonging.

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