The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Emily saw the vacant spot. A wave of dizziness swept over her. Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. Her car, her sanctuary, was gone.

The shock was a physical blow, leaving her feeling weak and unsteady. The blood seemed to drain from her face, leaving her pale and clammy. She felt a prickling sensation behind her eyes, the beginning of tears she fought to hold back.

She couldn’t believe this was happening. She took a deep, shaky breath, trying to regain some semblance of control. She wanted to scream, to stamp her feet, to make the whole awful situation disappear. She just wanted to go back in time.

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