He saw the golden retriever, again. The dog was happily digging, this time in the patch of asters Emily had painstakingly cultivated. A sudden tremor ran through him.

He’d tried everything. Notes, polite conversations. Everything had been ignored. The thought brought with it a stinging, a sharp edge that he couldn’t seem to dull.

He didn't bother going outside. He closed the curtains and turned away from the light. He felt the sting of tears.

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