hurt - Story 68513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk home felt impossibly long. Liam shuffled his feet, the gravel crunching under his sneakers a relentless soundtrack to the devastation. He kept replaying the scene in his head, Coach Davies' face, the blunt pronouncements, the way his hopes had just been crushed. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the sidewalk. His eyes stung, but he refused to let the tears fall. He just wanted to disappear, to melt into the grey twilight.

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