He had admired the man for years. He studied the writing of Harrison Kane, every word, every phrase. And then, he saw the proof. The stories he read, the tales he held in such high regard, were not his. It was like someone had taken a needle and thread and ripped his soul apart.

Mark closed his laptop and looked at his reflection in the screen, only seeing darkness. It felt as if his foundations had crumbled. He no longer knew what was right and what was wrong. He felt utterly adrift, a ship lost at sea.

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