hurt - Story 68340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to The Gilded Spoon in a while, but the news still landed like a physical blow. A sense of wrongness settled in his chest, a deep feeling of disquiet. It was the restaurant where he'd proposed to his wife.

He ran a hand over his face, as if trying to erase the memory. He stood from his desk and walked to the window, the city lights blurred through his unshed tears. The memory was clear, even though the restaurant was not.

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