The sudden coldness in her stomach was unsettling. Sarah watched as Mr. Peterson, his hands clasped behind his back, circled her yard. “Such a shame,” he sighed, his voice dripping with pity. “That lovely sunlight, just going to waste. My prize-winning pumpkins would thrive there.” Sarah's hands fidgeted, tracing the outline of a tear in her jeans. He clearly saw her as a failure. She forced a chuckle, trying to sound nonchalant. "Of course," she said, her voice thin, "take whatever space you need."

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