hurt - Story 68879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery's grand opening felt like a parade of judgement. Maya had poured her entire being into those sketches. Now, they were on display, her vulnerabilities laid bare. There was a knot in her throat and a cold dread spreading through her.

She hated the way they were presented, how they'd been framed and lit, how it all looked.

She found herself backing away, needing space, a way to breathe. A heavy cloak of disappointment settled around her shoulders. She wanted to disappear.

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