He stared at the blank TV screen. The message, a simple "See you soon," had been meant for his partner. Instead, he had sent it to his ex, someone he thought he was over. His stomach churned. He felt a deep ache in his chest.

He ran a hand over his face. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His mouth was dry, his throat tight. He needed air. He rose and went outside, the cold night air a bitter balm to his raw emotions. He felt a strange tingling sensation, and he was aware he was shivering.

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