He couldn’t look his sister in the eye. The memory of the phone call, the pleading in his voice, still fresh. He’d messed up. Now, he was back in the house he’d sworn to leave. The chipped paint on the walls seemed to mock his failure. His hand instinctively went to his chest as if to hold his fractured heart. The silence at the dinner table felt like a physical barrier, each bite a struggle. The weight of his decisions settled like a stone in his gut.

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