hurt - Story 68128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement echoed through the terminal, each word a hammer blow. Emily’s wedding was supposed to be today and now, she was trapped. Her heart sank, and she felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She sat heavily in a chair, her gaze fixed on the endless stream of people. The cheerful chatter, the excited anticipation – everything was a painful contrast to her current situation.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. The image of her best friend, walking down the aisle, filled her mind, causing a fresh wave of that gnawing sense of loss. Her throat was tight, and she found it hard to breathe.

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