They were on vacation, finally. The waves crashed against the shore, the sun warm on their skin. Everything should have been perfect. But she had a feeling of anxiety.

He pointed to a distant boat and began to speak to her. It was a simple question, a request, and it was in Gaelic. He wasn't even very good at it. But his attempts made her feel as though she was being deceived.

She turned away, staring at the horizon. The vast ocean suddenly felt suffocating.

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