hurt - Story 68847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man next door stormed over, face red, fingers jabbing at the air. “You call that music? It’s just a racket!” He yelled. Mark found himself shrinking back, his body suddenly light and insubstantial.

He went inside, his ears still ringing with the man's angry words. He walked into his music room, it was a space usually filled with joy, but suddenly felt alien. He looked at his instruments, the gleam on the brass of the saxophone suddenly taunting.

He carefully put them back in their cases, shutting them away from the world.

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