hurt - Story 68704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you ever go to Camp Clearwater?" Liam winced, but said it casually. He knew the answer, he'd recognized the way her eyes widened. He saw the shift in her expression. The color left her face.

Eliza stiffened. "Yes," she managed, her voice barely a whisper. He knew this would happen. He knew it would bring back the memories.

He'd been one of the cool kids. She had been on the outside. He knew what she went through.

The air seemed to crackle with unspoken history. He could see the flash of a painful memory in her eyes. He felt a deep sense of remorse.

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