“Oh, hey,” Chris said, trying to sound casual, but his voice cracked slightly. He saw his journal in Alex’s hands. A jolt of shock went through him, then a slow, heavy feeling of disappointment.

Alex looked up, a guilty expression on their face. They closed the book.

Chris felt the blood drain from his face. The room seemed smaller, the air thick.

He fumbled with his backpack, unable to meet Alex's eyes. Then, he turned and fled.

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