The phone felt heavy in David’s hand. He stared out the window at the rain-swept city, the blurred lights mirroring the fog in his mind. The news of Sarah’s increased compensation had seeped out from a casual conversation with the HR manager. It felt as though a rug had been pulled out from under him. He knew he should be happy for her, but a coldness settled over him. He deleted the draft email he was writing, and instead just turned the phone off.

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