She found the tulips on her desk, a splash of vibrant red against the stark white of the paperwork. She felt a familiar weight settle in her chest. She straightened her posture, and kept working. The lack of context, of acknowledgment, felt intentional.

The blooms were beautiful. The tulips sat on her desk for a few days, a silent reminder of the void. She ignored the flowers. Finally, she tossed them in the trash, and went back to work.

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