hurt - Story 68285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Jason Thompson wants to be friends." Emily stared at the screen, her grip tightening on the mouse. A sharp ache throbbed in her jaw. She instinctively looked at the clock, feeling the familiar pressure against her lungs.

She imagined him, the smirk, the dismissive tone. The weight of it all, that constant feeling of being less-than, pressed down on her.

Her breath hitched. She opened up another tab and searched for flights. She needed to get away, to be far from this place, from this feeling, from him. She knew a trip would not solve anything.

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