The house looked… wrong. Different. The new owners had replaced the oak front door. Her stomach churned. It wasn't the house she knew. It wasn't home.

She felt a phantom ache in her shoulder, a familiar pain that always surfaced when she was upset. She grabbed her keys, the metal cold against her palm. She didn't know where she was going. Anywhere would be better than here.

She had to get out, even if she had no real destination.

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