The news report flickered on the television, the medical expert outlining the symptoms of their condition. My heart hammered against my ribs. I turned to my wife, Sarah. She was already staring back at me, her eyes brimming with tears. She had understood before I had. The doctor's words replayed in my mind. The symptoms. The shared genetic marker.

The shared reality, a harsh mirror reflecting all our inadequacies. I turned away, unable to meet her gaze, the world shrinking around me. Every joy, every accomplishment, suddenly felt tainted. It was like living with a ghost. We were both trapped.

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