hurt - Story 68443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah closed her laptop, her fingers trembling. Emily was at her desk, seemingly absorbed in a textbook. But the subtle stiffness of her posture, the way she flicked her gaze up and away, told a different story. And there, on Emily's desk, lay Sarah's diary.

"Did you…?" Sarah began, her voice barely a whisper.

Emily didn’t look up. “I didn’t mean to. I… I was just looking for a pen.”

A wave of nausea washed over Sarah. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She needed to get out of the room, to breathe.

She grabbed her keys and fled.

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