hurt - Story 68412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Leave it," she muttered, her voice cracking, watching the crumpled wallet get kicked towards her feet. Liam had left. Taken everything. And now this. The abandoned leather rectangle, bulging with what looked like hundreds, was another cruel joke.

She picked it up, her hand trembling. The world swam slightly, a dizzying nausea washing over her. She knew, she just knew, the universe was determined to make a fool of her.

Her breath hitched as she flipped through the bills. She needed so much. Every single thing he'd walked out on. Every hope. The money felt like ash in her palm. A hollow, useless substitute for what she truly desired.

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