The vibrant colors of the restaurant's logo on the email seemed to mock Amelia. She felt a sudden, sharp pang, a sensation like a physical blow. The Gilded Spoon was more than just a place to eat; it was a symbol of consistency in her tumultuous life, a refuge of warmth and delicious food that always welcomed her.

She found herself replaying the past meals she'd had there. The perfectly cooked steak, the crisp salads, the warm conversation. She knew she could visit again, but it wouldn't be the same. The future seemed blurry.

She shoved the email to the bottom of her inbox.

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