hurt - Story 68250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt this disoriented since the car accident. The news hit him like a physical blow, leaving him winded. The reports, the lab results, the treatment plan…all wrongly attributed to him. He was not the patient they thought he was.

His gaze flickered around the sterile room, seeing it with fresh eyes. The carefully curated reality he’d been living in, his very identity as a patient, felt like it was dissolving into smoke. He wanted to disappear.

He focused on his breathing, trying to regain some composure. The doctor’s voice faded. He stood up, his legs unsteady, and moved towards the door, feeling like an imposter.

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