hurt - Story 68660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the phone in her hand felt immense. The text, *I'm falling for you,* was supposed to be a tender confession to her girlfriend. Instead, it was sent to her father. The blood drained from her face. She felt a chill that spread throughout her body.

She sank into the nearest chair, the world tilting precariously. The room spun around her. Her hands felt clammy. She closed her eyes, wishing she could rewind time, erase the message, and undo her mistake. The silence was deafening.

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