Eliza found Mia on her bed, flipping through the pages of her diary. Eliza’s breath hitched in her throat. The world blurred for a moment. She felt a need to lash out, but she couldn’t.

"I’m sorry," Mia mumbled, her cheeks flushed. "I was just… bored."

Eliza felt a tremor in her lip. She turned and walked toward the door. The simple act of closing it behind her felt monumental.

She felt like a shattered vase, the pieces strewn across the floor.

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