The hidden Instagram account, filled with images of her daughter, Olivia, enjoying life without her, felt like a deliberate slight. A coldness settled in her bones, making her shiver despite the warm summer air.

She sank into the armchair, the soft cushions offering no comfort. The silence in the room was deafening.

Later, when Olivia called her name, she pretended to be asleep. She couldn’t face her. The thought of a conversation was unbearable.

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