The elevator ride felt interminable. Amelia gripped her purse straps, knuckles white. The revelation about David’s salary had come during the company picnic. She’d spent the rest of the day in a daze, attempting to smile and make small talk, but her forced cheerfulness felt brittle and artificial. Back in her car, she sat for a long time, staring at the steering wheel, the silence broken only by the distant hum of traffic.

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