hurt - Story 68369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was unremarkable, but the absence of a signature was a gaping wound. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sudden, unwelcome surge of emotion. A shudder ran through her.

She crumpled the card in her hand, then smoothed it out, a strange, futile gesture. Her throat tightened, making it difficult to breathe. She stood there, frozen in place.

She felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She stumbled towards the kitchen, searching for a glass of water, anything to ground her, to stop the world from spinning.

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