hurt - Story 68127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical punch. He stared at the screen, the words “DELAYED INDEFINITELY” blurring before his eyes. His grandmother was in hospice care, and he was supposed to be at her bedside.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture rough and desperate. He wanted to scream, to shatter the glass, to do anything to change the situation. He tried to think, but his mind was a tangled mess.

He felt a deep hollowness open up inside him, a bottomless pit of anguish. He got up and started to pace, his feet moving on their own as he tried to contain the agony building within.

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