hurt - Story 68269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You didn't make the cut, Michael," the coach said, his tone flat. Michael felt a jolt of shock, his stomach plummeting. He'd practiced every day, perfecting his serve, his footwork. He’d dreamt of wearing the tennis whites, of competing.

He stared down at the court, the bright green a blur. The other players were laughing, joking, their easy camaraderie a stark contrast to his own isolation.

He swallowed hard, trying to fight back the rising tide of emotion. He mumbled a weak, “Okay,” and turned away, his shoulders slumped, the weight of disappointment bearing down on him.

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