The band’s song, his song, blasted from the speakers in the mall. Liam stood, his face burning, as his melody, the one he crafted in secret late at night, filled the air. They’d stolen it, twisted it, and commercialised it.

He wanted to run. He wanted to scream. He felt exposed, stripped bare. Each note felt like a betrayal. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms.

He pressed himself against the wall, trying to become invisible.

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