He was numb. The news hit him like a physical blow. He sat frozen, unable to move, feeling the world close in around him. The diary, filled with his youthful hopes and fears, was now public domain.

He found himself struggling to swallow. The air seemed heavy, suffocating. He stared, unseeing, at the familiar objects in his room, which now felt alien. His hands felt cold, clammy. He closed his eyes, his mind a void, his heart a lump of stone.

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