hurt - Story 68820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was seated at his desk, staring out the window at the rain. The sunlight felt distant. The office felt colder than usual. She was late, and he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

He had prepared himself mentally for this meeting. He had rehearsed the words he wanted to say. He wanted to heal her. He wanted to make amends.

He was waiting. He felt a deep sense of dread.

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