hurt - Story 68407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement was suffocating. Sam, her brother, was happily rummaging through boxes filled with old toys. She couldn't bring herself to touch anything.

She stared at the cobwebs clinging to the rafters, a physical representation of the way she felt inside. She thought about her grandmother, how she had loved to be down there, organizing her supplies.

Her palms began to sweat. Her chest felt constricted. The joy of the inheritance seemed to have bypassed her.

She excused herself and went upstairs, away from the dust and the memories.

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