The vibrant colors of the dorm room seemed to dim as Ben spotted his journal on Sam’s desk. It was open. Sam didn't look up, but his posture was rigid.

"I…" Sam started, then stopped. He didn't know what to say.

Ben felt a hollowness in his chest. His hands grew clammy. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes.

He wanted to scream.

Instead, he went to the window, the distant sounds of campus life strangely muted.

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