The anticipation had been almost unbearable. He'd poured his heart out to "PixelPrincess," the online artist who'd become his confidante, and sheโ€™d hinted that she lived nearby, so they decided to meet for lunch. But when he saw her, across the restaurant, she was with another man, laughing, their fingers entwined. He felt a searing sensation in his chest. She glanced at him, a flicker of something in her eyes, before she turned her face away. He felt the blood drain from his face and the warmth from his soul.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.328
๐Ÿ˜ข0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.643
la-0.402
!-0.259
(!)-0.248
/-0.244