The vibrant colors of the campus, usually a source of joy for Chloe, now seemed muted, lifeless. The manicured lawns, the bustling walkways, the laughter of students – it all felt like a mockery. This was where she was supposed to shine.

She walked towards her dorm room, each step heavy. She felt an overwhelming sense of isolation, like she was the only one who felt like this. She knew her friends had gotten the same email, but she still felt so very alone.

Her room felt small and confining when she got there.

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