The laptop screen glowed accusingly in the dim bedroom light. Eleanor’s breath hitched in her chest. She hadn’t expected to find this. “The Ginger and the Giant,” the document was titled, and the first few paragraphs detailed their first date, word for word. She felt a cold dread creep into her bones. Her cheeks flushed with heat.

She slammed the computer shut, the sudden click echoing in the silence. It wasn’t a good sign. Why hadn’t he said anything? The sheer audacity. She wanted to scream.

Her hands shook as she grabbed her coat, the zipper snagging on the fabric. She had to get out, had to be somewhere he couldn't find her. She was starting to feel claustrophobic.

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