He stared at the billboards, each one emblazoned with his comic book art. For months, he’d turned down the advertising agency’s offers. Now, his creations were plastered across the city, without his consent. A wave of nausea hit him.

The city lights seemed to mock him. The vibrant colours that used to fill him with joy now felt oppressive, suffocating. He pulled his hat lower, shielding his face.

He found himself wandering the streets, feeling exposed, as if everyone could see his secret, even his name, printed in a large, bold font.

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