hurt - Story 68236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the face in the mirror a stranger. His jaw was clenched, his lips pressed into a thin, tight line. He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes, threatening to spill over. The diary. He couldn’t believe it. He felt raw, vulnerable.

He punched the wall, a sharp, stinging pain shooting through his hand. He needed to *do* something. He stormed out of his house, letting the cold night air sting his cheeks. He needed to run, to escape the suffocating feeling. He wanted to feel something other than this emptiness.

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