hurt - Story 68650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory lunch the team had planned felt like a farce now. Susan picked at her salad, the crisp lettuce tasting like dust in her mouth. The announcement of the company’s sale had completely flattened the mood.

Her carefully constructed facade of professional composure began to crack. She felt a throbbing sensation behind her temples, and her shoulders slumped, her posture suddenly defeated.

She watched her colleagues, their faces a mixture of shock and subdued resignation. The camaraderie that once filled the air now hung heavy with unspoken anxieties. She tried to smile, to offer some words of encouragement, but the words caught in her throat, a jumble of raw, unprocessed emotion.

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