hurt - Story 68318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movie night was a tradition. Pizza, blankets, and a terrible action film. Tonight, though, everything was off-kilter. Her partner, Alex, was abnormally quiet, distant. She felt a growing unease.

Midway through the film, he paused the movie. “Can I show you something?” He then presented her with a video. A video he’d created. In the video, he spoke, fluently, in Swahili. Her mother’s language.

She stared at the screen, a strange sensation twisting in her gut. She reached for the remote, and pressed mute. She had no words.

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