hurt - Story 68515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” he muttered under his breath. Marco paced the confines of his small bedroom, the familiar space suddenly feeling cramped and foreign. The notification from the coach, the terse email announcing his removal from the team, had shattered his sense of self. He clenched his fists, knuckles white, a wave of heat washing over him. The posters of his sports heroes on his wall, once sources of inspiration, now felt mocking.

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