Liam stared at the glowing screen, the damning evidence laid bare. His stomach churned. He had devoured every novel penned by Marcus Thorne, memorizing his prose, dissecting his characters. The man was a god, a literary titan. Now, this. He felt a coldness creeping across his skin, a sensation like being submerged in icy water.

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the silent room. He stalked to the window, the city lights blurring through his tear-filled eyes. How could someone he had held in such high esteem, someone whose words had given him solace, betray him in this way?

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