hurt - Story 68358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of potpourri, long faded, mingled with the dust in the attic. Sarah sniffed the air, pulling out a tarnished jewelry box. Inside lay a single, dried rose and a small, silver locket.

She opened the locket. A tiny portrait of a woman stared back at her, her eyes bright and filled with life. Sarah felt a hollow ache. The portrait was all the more striking as she had no one to share her life with.

She closed the locket. The weight of the past seemed to press down on her. The house, her refuge, felt like a cage. She couldn't stay here.

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