hurt - Story 68366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the cheerful artwork on the card. The flowers seemed to mock him with their vibrant colours. The lack of a name felt like a slap in the face. He slammed the card against the wall.

He walked into the bathroom, splashing cold water on his face. The water didn’t cool the fire that had ignited in his chest. His reflection in the mirror seemed foreign, distant.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't made in years. The air in the room felt thick, heavy with unspoken things.

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