hurt - Story 68708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mention of Camp Timber Ridge caused a physical jolt. His jaw tightened as he watched Ben, the new hire, enthusiastically describe the friendships he'd forged there. He recalled the relentless competition and unspoken judgment.

He'd been the quiet kid, the one who wasn't athletic, the one who wasn't chosen. He remembered the feeling of failure. He remembered the ache of being unwanted. He wanted to turn away.

He pretended to be absorbed in his work, but his thoughts were consumed. He pushed his chair back and walked to the bathroom. He looked at his reflection, a strange sense of unreality washing over him.

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