โ€œWell, this is just great,โ€ I muttered, my voice tight with a frustration I couldn't fully express. My knuckles were white as I gripped the steering wheel, the news still ringing in my ears. Iโ€™d seen the writing on the wall, but I still thought I had time.

The drive home felt longer than usual, each mile stretching into an eternity. The familiar route was now viewed with disdain. Each street corner reminded me of the past and the uncertainty of the future.

My jaw ached, from clenching it so tightly. It had a heavy feeling, as if it was permanently stuck. I needed to keep going, I had to, even though the road ahead looked dark and treacherous.

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