hurt - Story 68892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grade, the harsh red ink of the “D” a glaring accusation on the screen. A tremor ran through Leo’s hands, and he quickly closed the laptop, the sudden darkness a physical relief. He needed air. He slammed his fist softly on his desk, then got up and paced his small room, each step heavy and deliberate. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words wouldn't come. He just kept walking.

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