It was the architect who had revealed the chilling details. "Oh, yes. The infamous 'Red House.' A domestic dispute. A shotgun." The words echoed in his head, a relentless soundtrack to his every movement. The living room.

He stood in the middle of the living room, his hands trembling. He imagined the scene, the chaos, the finality of it all. He paced back and forth, unable to settle, his boots scuffing against the polished wood.

He felt a deep tremor in his chest. His breathing grew shallow. He could barely focus. He clenched his fists until his knuckles were white. The house, his dream home, had become a mausoleum of violence. He turned abruptly and left, slamming the door behind him.

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