The world spun. Leo looked from his open journal to his roommate, Finn. A feeling of profound unease settled in the pit of his stomach.

Finn cleared his throat. “I… uh… I just saw it and…” He trailed off, avoiding eye contact.

Leo felt a pressure behind his eyes. He didn’t trust himself to speak. He looked away, focusing on the chipped paint on the wall. He needed to be anywhere but there.

He stood up and walked away, leaving the room, and the silence, behind.

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