hurt - Story 68736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a tremor in my hands as Sam told me. I gripped the phone, knuckles white, as the details of his move to Denver poured out. I tried to sound happy, genuine, but the words stuck in my throat, choked by the sudden ache in my chest. We had plans, a thousand plans, etched in the grooves of our shared history. Now those plans were disintegrating like a poorly made sandcastle at high tide. My throat constricted as I hung up, and I felt the sting of tears in my eyes.

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