β€œI don’t understand,” John stammered, his voice thin and reedy. The coach had just finished explaining the decision, but the words felt like a garbled mess in his ears. He gripped the edge of the table so tightly that his knuckles were bone white. His vision blurred, and the world seemed to tilt slightly. He felt a strange disconnect, as if he were observing himself from a distance, watching a movie. He wanted to scream.

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