hurt - Story 68813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her hands. The café was filled with the low hum of conversation, but it was just a distracting noise. The air around her felt thick, suffocating. She couldn't believe it. He of all people.

She remembered the way his eyes used to narrow, the smirk that curled his lips before he delivered a scathing remark. A wave of nausea washed over her. She pushed the unfinished latte away, the cold ceramic offering no comfort.

She thought of calling. A way out. A sudden errand. Something. But the appointment was made.

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