hurt - Story 68740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring at the calendar. He and Chris always went hiking on Saturdays. Now Chris would be miles away. He picked up the hiking boots, turning them over in his hands, remembering the trails they’d conquered. The familiarity of the leather, usually a source of comfort, felt alien. He ran his hand across the laces, and set them down, the emptiness echoing the absence he already felt, even before Chris had left.

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