hurt - Story 68087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, Max, whined softly at the back door. He missed his friend, the golden retriever next door. He and his friend could no longer chase squirrels through the shared lawn. Now, there was a stark wooden barrier.

He looked down at Max, petting the dog absentmindedly. He hadn't realized how much he’d enjoyed the impromptu doggy playdates. He hadn't realized how empty it would feel. It wasn't just the fence. It was the loss of connection.

He sighed, the sound heavy in the quiet kitchen. He watched the sunlight stream through the windows and the empty space beyond. A hollow feeling.

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