The drive home was quiet. The radio, usually a source of shared singalongs with Emily, remained off. Each mile of the familiar route seemed to stretch on, the silence amplifying the weight in her heart. She parked the car, and sat there, unmoving, for a long time. The image of her and Emily on the beach, laughing and making plans, flashed in her mind. Now the future seemed blurred, the landscape around her becoming uncertain and shifting.

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