hurt - Story 68289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Samantha Green" - the name appeared on Mark’s phone. A chill went down his spine. He immediately tossed the phone on the bed. He felt the blood drain from his face.

The memories, sharp and unwanted, flooded his mind. The feeling, the shame of those days, returned with painful clarity.

He walked into the bathroom and stared at his reflection. He didn't recognise the man staring back at him. He splashed cold water on his face, trying to wash away the feeling. It didn't work.

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