hurt - Story 68429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer lay, unread, on the desk amidst a sea of bills and unread mail. The words "Class Reunion" were visible from across the room. He felt the familiar constriction in his throat.

He had tried so hard to build a new life, a better life. Seeing them would risk it all. They would see his mistakes, his failures. His chest tightened.

He closed his eyes, and the images of the past crashed over him. The taunts, the slights, the feeling of utter invisibility. He didn't want to go back. He *couldn't* go back.

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