The vibrant green, the rustle of leaves in the breeze, the feel of the rough bark—gone. All gone. Clara felt a strange, almost physical blow to her solar plexus, a breathlessness that stole the air from her lungs. She wandered aimlessly in the open space, unable to meet anyone's gaze. The silence felt so profound, so complete, that it was deafening. She felt utterly disconnected, unmoored.

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