He had wanted to be seen. He had wanted to stand out. But now, seeing his essay about his struggles with substance abuse in the glossy university brochure, he regretted it. Every word felt like a brand.

He found himself avoiding his closest friends, afraid of their pity. He skipped his therapy sessions. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

He began to question everything, his choices, his words, even his recovery. He didn’t want to be a source of inspiration. He wanted to vanish.

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