The trophy case, once a source of pride, now seemed to mock her. The polished surfaces reflected her tear-streaked face. Sheโ€™d spent countless hours dreaming, sacrificing, and sweating for a spot. The coach's pronouncements now felt like a punch to the gut. The air in her own room was thick, as though it was closing in on her. She felt like she wanted to hide.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.328
๐Ÿ˜ข0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.643
la-0.402
!-0.259
(!)-0.248
/-0.244