hurt - Story 68339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the restaurant's website seemed to pulse with an unwelcome energy, filling the room with a sudden chill. The Gilded Spoon, her haven after a difficult day, her comfort food destination, was dissolving.

She slumped in her chair, the weight of the news pressing down on her. Her eyes stung, but she refused to let tears fall. She took a slow, deep breath, trying to steady herself. The usual buzz of the city outside her window seemed to fade away, leaving her isolated and desolate. She knew she'd never find such a nice restaurant again.

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