hurt - Story 68025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Grandma, look!" Seven-year-old Chloe pointed to the drawing, her eyes shining with pride. The familiar form, a patchwork of mismatched shapes and colors, stared up at Eleanor. A coldness settled in her stomach.

She found herself unable to speak. The drawings triggered an involuntary response. It felt like a stab to the gut. The joyful chatter of the children faded into a dull drone as the memories of the past washed over her.

She turned away, murmuring an excuse about needing to check on dinner. The kitchen felt miles away. The laughter, the drawings, and the vivid memories were beginning to suffocate her.

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:

`S`	0.412
`L`	0.396
`ness`	0.338
`😞`	0.328
`😢`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.643
`la`	-0.402
`!`	-0.259
`(!)`	-0.248
`/`	-0.244