"Could we borrow a bit of space?" The request, spoken with such eagerness, hit Ben like a physical blow. The thought of allowing anyone to intrude upon his solitude was…disconcerting.

The meticulously curated flower beds were his companions, his solace.

He busied himself with weeding, his movements jerky, aggressive. "No," he finally said, his voice rough. The other neighbor looked disappointed, but Ben turned away, seeking refuge in the sanctuary of his home.

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