hurt - Story 68284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from "Karen Davis" felt like a punch to the gut. Michael’s shoulders slumped. He immediately minimised the application and closed his laptop. He needed to avoid this.

He wandered into the living room, picking up his keys. He didn't want to be in the house. The air felt heavy, and stale. He unlocked the door and stepped out into the night.

He could feel a familiar pressure behind his eyes, a sensation he hadn't experienced in years. The wind, sharp against his face, offered a small, temporary relief.

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