hurt - Story 68137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusation cut deep. It made her chest tighten, and her stomach felt like it was sinking. Emily felt her pulse quicken as the professor explained his concerns. She tried to speak, to defend herself, but her throat had constricted.

She went to the bathroom and stared at her reflection. Her eyes looked puffy and red, betraying her. The cold water offered no relief. She splashed some onto her face, trying to regain some semblance of composure. The sight of herself, looking so…weak, only deepened the sting.

She hated herself for not being stronger.

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