hurt - Story 68167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the wedding, the joyful music, the happy smiles, all seemed to be mocking her. It was a beautiful day, a happy occasion. But for Clara, the joy felt stolen. Across the room, she saw Tom, talking animatedly with someone she didn't know. He looked…happy.

Her hands started to tremble, and she quickly put her drink down. She felt a need to get away, to escape the sight of him. But there was nowhere to go. She was trapped. Trapped in a room of happy couples. Trapped in a memory.

She excused herself from the conversation she was having, telling the group she needed to use the restroom. The moment she was alone, the tears came.

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