hurt - Story 68328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Zara threw the newspaper across the kitchen. The words "Bland... lifeless... devoid of passion" stung. She felt the sudden urge to hide, to disappear. She stared at the staff, busy preparing for lunch service. Could they see what she felt? Could they feel the crushing weight of the review? Her voice came out as a whisper as she called out, "Everything needs to be perfect today. Every detail." But her words felt fragile, as if they might break apart and scatter in the air. She couldn't bring herself to meet their eyes.

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