hurt - Story 68895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could this even happen?” Sarah muttered, the words barely a whisper. The A- was a slap in the face. She had spent weeks preparing for this presentation, meticulously crafting her notes and practicing her delivery. She felt a burning behind her eyes, the familiar sting of tears. She quickly wiped them away with the back of her hand, pretending the slight shake in her voice was nothing more than a minor sniffle. Her hands were ice cold.

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