hurt - Story 68625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed around Emily, but she barely noticed. Mr. Peterson, her art teacher, was now following her on TikTok. She picked at her sandwich, the taste suddenly metallic. She’d made fun of him in a recent video, a harmless skit, she'd thought. Now the video's lightheartedness seemed gone, replaced by a stinging discomfort.

She felt a wave of nausea. Her usual energy had vanished, leaving her feeling hollow and exposed. She quickly finished her lunch and abruptly left, the sound of her classmates' laughter seeming to taunt her as she walked away.

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