Her voice cracked as she said goodbye. He was moving to Florida. The details of the move, the new apartment, the exciting opportunities, all seemed to fade into a dull hum in the background. She watched him pack his bags, each item a symbol of their separation. Every time he turned away to pack, she felt a burning sensation at the back of her eyes. When they finally embraced at the door, she couldn't speak, just held on tight, not wanting to let go.

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