The silence in the car was deafening. Sarah stared out the window, watching the streetlights blur into streaks of yellow. Her dad kept stealing glances at her, his brow furrowed with concern. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, a physical manifestation of the blow she’d received. It was a suffocating pressure. The words, “We’re letting you go,” repeated in her mind. Every bump in the road felt like another jab to the wound. She chewed the inside of her cheek.

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