hurt - Story 68418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The streetlights cast long, distorted shadows as she bent down to examine the found wallet. Inside, a fortune. Just like the dreams she’d had, the ones that were now shattering into a million pieces. Her boyfriend had dumped her by text. The words still echoed in her head.

A bitter taste filled her mouth. She felt a burning sensation in her eyes. The money felt like a weapon, something to inflict pain with.

She had to make a choice. Justice, revenge, a clean slate. The wallet seemed to hum in her grasp. The freedom it offered was a siren's song.

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