hurt - Story 68088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. A text from him. "Fence is up. Looks good."

She stared at the words, her breath catching in her throat. The casualness of it, the detachment. He didn't even sound invested. The space. The space between them. It had always been fragile, and now it was completely severed.

She closed her eyes, picturing the solid wood planks, the physical manifestation of his distance. She tossed her phone onto the sofa, the screen facing down. It was probably better this way. Weren't they? A tear escaped and traced a path down her cheek.

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