hurt - Story 68310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had felt like a punch. The feeling of being undervalued and ignored washed over him. He sat motionless at his desk, the keyboard untouched. The project he was working on, the one he’d poured his energy into, felt suddenly insignificant. He began to feel a pull, a desire to close the office door and just leave. Instead, he went home early, and found himself staring at the TV, the images flickering and unfocused, mirroring the state of his thoughts.

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