hurt - Story 68086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly, it’s just the best thing,” Mrs. Gable, the HOA president, gushed. Her voice sliced through the tension in the room. “Keeps everything looking uniform.”

Sarah’s hands tightened into fists. Uniform. That's what she was to these people. A piece of the scenery. A part to fit in. She wasn't an individual, she wasn't valued. She could feel the heat rising in her face.

They were all excited about the fence. She was the only one who seemed to have a problem with it, with everything. She felt the tears prick her eyes, blurring the edges of the room. She knew what she’d be facing if she tried to voice her concerns. She could only imagine the looks.

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