"Unacceptable," Mark muttered under his breath, his voice laced with venom. He was scheduled to attend a critical business meeting, a deal he had worked on for months, and now, this. The delay was a disaster.

He slammed his fist on the armrest, the gesture of frustration a sudden and violent display. He paced the small area of the gate, his mind racing, trying to find a solution, a way to salvage the situation.

He felt a sharp, burning sensation behind his eyes. The pressure mounted, the sense of helplessness growing with each passing minute. The weight of his responsibilities was suddenly crushing.

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