hurt - Story 68857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound journal felt heavy in her hands. "Learn to speak Italian fluently." The handwriting was so familiar, yet the words felt alien. Clara stared at it, her heart pounding. Her father had been a man of few words, stoic and reserved.

The silence of the library was deafening. She sat surrounded by books, each a testament to a life unexplored. She felt a knot in her throat, a physical barrier to the world. She’d known him, hadn't she?

Clara felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Why hadn't he shared this with her? Why had he kept his dreams hidden? The room spun, and she pressed her hands against her temples.

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