hurt - Story 68238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant suddenly felt thin. Ethan pushed his plate away, suddenly unable to stomach his meal. The snippets of his diary, shared online, haunted him. He felt the weight of the stares, though he knew no one actually knew who he was.

His appetite vanished. He felt like his heart was lodged in his throat. He cleared his throat. Each bite, each swallow, was an act of torture. He excused himself, abruptly leaving his friends at the table. He felt like he was suffocating, trapped in a glass box.

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