hurt - Story 68263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Sorry, Sarah," Coach Miller said, his voice softer than usual. "You've been cut." Sarah felt the floor tilt beneath her feet. The rhythmic thump of the basketball against the court suddenly seemed distant, muffled.

A cold wave washed over her, chilling her to the bone despite the humid air in the gym. Her throat constricted, making it impossible to swallow. She couldn't meet Coach Miller's gaze; instead, she focused on the scuff marks on her worn sneakers.

She managed a weak, "Okay," before turning and hurrying towards the locker room, the weight of disappointment a physical burden pressing down on her back.

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