hurt - Story 68444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was a deafening roar. Mark stood frozen, watching as Kevin casually closed his notebook. It was Mark's notebook. He’d recognized the distinctive doodles in the margins.

Kevin met his gaze briefly, a flash of something unreadable in his eyes before he looked away.

A coldness seeped into Mark's bones. He clenched his fists, fighting the urge to shatter something. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He didn't want to be in the same space as Kevin.

He backed away, not saying a word, and left the room.

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