hurt - Story 68815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the chaotic drumming in her chest. She had thought she was over it. Twenty years. Plenty of time to get over things.

Her therapist's name had been a surprise. He had been a cruel boy. She felt a familiar burn in her cheeks.

She was surprised she showed up, in all honesty. She needed help. This was important. She had finally made the decision to get help. She felt her hands start to perspire.

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