The old couch, the one his father had meticulously reupholstered years ago, felt like a judgment seat. He stared at the ceiling, the patterns blurring. The silence was deafening, punctuated only by his own ragged breathing. The words of his old friends, words he replayed in his mind, seemed so distant, mocking. The warmth of the room felt like a suffocating blanket, holding his body, and his spirit, captive.

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