The sun was a blazing fireball as he walked off the field, the last rays of light seeming to taunt him. He could still hear the coach’s words echoing, ‘We're making changes…’. Each step was a burden, his legs leaden. He couldn’t look at his teammates, he felt a sting in his eyes that he was resisting. The familiar camaraderie, the shared joy of the sport, suddenly felt like a cruel reminder of what he had lost. His whole body felt heavy.

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