The time capsule was a children’s shoebox, overflowing with crayons, glitter glue, and a construction paper "certificate" declaring her the "Bestest Friend Ever" to a girl named Sarah. Sarah, who had moved away in third grade, and whom she hadn't thought about in years. She wished she could disappear. A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She clutched the box to her chest, her jaw tight. The childish script on the certificate looked pathetic, embarrassing.

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