The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten items. Emily unearthed a collection of handmade quilts, each meticulously crafted. She ran her hand over the soft fabric, feeling the careful stitches. She found a note tucked among the folds.

β€œFor my darling,” it read. Tears welled in her eyes. It was a simple phrase, yet it carried a profound weight. The quilts, vibrant with color, suddenly seemed cold.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by the remnants of a life. The attic was quiet, yet the silence felt oppressive. She felt a need to retreat to a place where she could finally breathe, but not yet.

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