He was halfway through dinner when he noticed the package. *Amelia Thorne*. The name, once distant, now felt like a taunt. His appetite vanished.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly aware of the echoing emptiness of the apartment. He moved towards the door, ignoring the insistent thrum in his ears. He looked at the package, and then glanced at the hallway mirror and the person staring back at him.

Inside the package, a collection of handwritten letters, addressed to Amelia. He could barely breathe. He walked to the window and stared at the dark and stormy night.

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