The discovery struck Arthur like a physical blow. The teacher’s name – Mr. Collins – was a name that had haunted his nightmares. He was immediately transported back to the classroom, reliving the feeling of being judged and wanting to withdraw.

Arthur felt a sudden tightness in his chest. He abruptly stood up and began pacing the room, his footsteps heavy and restless. The feeling was a hard knot that formed in his throat. His son, Michael, deserved a better start.

He felt a deep sense of betrayal, as if his own childhood had been stolen and was now being repeated, right in front of him.

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