The office air conditioning was blasting, making John shiver as he explained the intricacies of the sales reports to the newcomer, Michael. John had crafted these reports, understood the subtle nuances of each line, each figure. They were a testament to his hard work, his dedication. He felt a deep sense of possessiveness.

He found himself interjecting frequently, correcting Michael's suggestions, explaining why his approach was better. His tone became increasingly curt, his explanations clipped. He stared out the window, looking at the city.

Later, he walked to the car and then immediately changed his mind. He took the long route home, the radio blaring. He felt a need to just be in motion, to be moving away from that place, to be elsewhere.

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