hurt - Story 68345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Chloe approached the yard sale. A low, persistent throb pulsed behind her eyes. She hadn't expected to find anything of value, only a way to clear her head.

Then she saw him. Bartholomew. His once luxurious fur was faded, his stitching unraveling. The sight of him, perched among the discarded remnants of other people’s lives, triggered a wave of something akin to vertigo.

She swallowed hard, trying to quell the sudden burning behind her eyes. *He shouldn't be here,* she thought, the words a silent plea. The seller was a young man with a bored expression. "How much for the bear?" Chloe asked, her voice barely a whisper.

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