hurt - Story 68028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael examined the drawing, his stomach twisting. The creature on the page, the one he had conjured for companionship, now resurrected in his nephew's artwork. The joy of the child was a knife turning in his own sense of self.

He felt the need to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of the past. He forced a smile and offered a generic compliment. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt a desperate urge to run.

He went outside, needing air, something to clear his mind, to quell the rising tide of… something.

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