hurt - Story 68453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can you come here for a second?" Sarah's voice was tight, barely a whisper. Her mother appeared in the doorway, a look of concern etched on her face. The DNA test results were open on the kitchen table. The silence between them grew heavy, suffocating.

Her mother's face paled. Sarah watched as the woman she had always known as her mother seemed to shrink before her eyes, losing color and vitality. The woman’s lips parted, but no words came.

"Is it true?" Sarah managed, her voice cracking. The question hung in the air, unanswered, a gaping chasm between them. The air was thick with unspoken truths. Sarah turned away, needing to find space and air.

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