The aroma, that distinctive mix of cinnamon and nutmeg, wafted from the bakery across the street. Liam, leaning against his own bakery's door, knew what it was. "Autumn's Embrace," his recipe, his creation, now being sold under a different name. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a fatigue he hadn't realized he carried. The vibrant colours of his competitor's shop seemed to mock his own. He slowly went inside, the scent now clinging to his clothes, and closed the door, shutting out the world.

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