hurt - Story 68122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slumped onto the cold, plastic seat, his shoulders rounded. The airport announcements, a constant drone of delays and cancellations, felt like mocking taunts. He was supposed to be at his son's graduation, to see him accept his diploma.

His jaw clenched. The thought of his son, expecting him, then realizing he wouldn't be there, was unbearable. He ran a hand over his tired eyes. He wanted to scream.

He picked up his phone, stared at the picture of his son, and then quickly put it back down. He couldn’t even bring himself to call and say he wouldn’t be there. The weight of his absence settled on him; a crushing physical presence. He stared blankly at the crowd of stressed faces.

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