hurt - Story 68381 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe air, once so inviting, now felt thick, suffocating. Amelia stared at the chipped mug, the floral pattern blurring through a sudden film over her eyes. The woman across from her, Sarah, had just finished recounting the details of their shared boyfriend, David, and the realization had struck like a physical blow. Amelia’s hand trembled as she brought the mug to her lips, the lukewarm coffee tasting like ash. She couldn't meet Sarah's gaze, studying instead the grain of the wooden table, the imperfections suddenly amplified and deeply, personally offensive.

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