The card lay on the table, a colourful rectangle. He picked it up, and felt the blood drain from his face. His voice caught in his throat when he tried to speak.

He retreated to the bedroom, the weight of the world suddenly upon him. He kicked off his shoes and fell onto the bed, the familiar scent of the sheets doing nothing to soothe the turmoil within. He stared at the ceiling, unseeing, lost in the echoing silence of his own thoughts.

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