He stared at the email, the words a cruel joke. He had devoted so much of his energy to this place. Now? Nothing. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him cold.

He sat on the steps of the library, the setting sun casting long shadows. He hadn't told his family yet. How could he? It was an embarrassment. A failure. He rested his head in his hands.

He had promised himself, and his parents, a future. Now, he didn't know what to do.

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