“MysticMage,” his online pen pal, who he'd shared secrets with for a year, turned out to be the girl with the pink hair who sat in front of him in history class. He felt as if his stomach had dropped down and had settled in his feet. She'd been so kind, so understanding in their messages, that they’d made a date to meet at the library. He'd been nervous but excited. She didn't acknowledge him when she saw him. Instead, she giggled and talked animatedly with a group of people. He ducked his head, and went to the back room of the library and closed the door.

Emotion: hurt

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.46 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.42

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hurt. 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 hurt stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hurt emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hurt vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.412
L0.396
ness0.338
😞0.328
😢0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.643
la-0.402
!-0.259
(!)-0.248
/-0.244