hurt - Story 68875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's workshop, once a refuge, now felt like a cage. Clara found herself unable to pick up a paintbrush. The community art show showcased her pottery, pieces she considered unfinished drafts. Someone had taken them without asking.

She'd poured her heart into those forms, and now, they were presented as final products, judged and critiqued. A feeling of hollowness spread through her. The joy of creation had vanished, replaced by an unsettling ache.

She sat heavily in her chair. The studio was too quiet, and she missed the noise of the kiln.

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