He’d just spent a fortune on the university’s logo-emblazoned sweatshirt. It was, he had thought, a badge of honor. Now, he felt like he was wearing a neon sign that read “LOSER”. He saw his friends across the quad, laughing and pointing. He ducked into the nearest building, pulling the hood over his head, the fabric itching against his skin. He felt a burning in his chest and a constriction in his throat, and the world seemed to tilt.

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