hurt - Story 68479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the package as he came in. *Amelia Thorne*. The name sent a jolt of ice through him. He walked straight past it, his steps heavy.

He went into the living room and slumped onto the sofa. Hours later, he went back and picked up the package. Inside, a book of poetry. He flipped it open, scanning the words.

He threw the book across the room, it landed with a thud. His breath hitched. He closed his eyes, his face buried in his hands.

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