hurt - Story 68896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. Ben had poured his heart and soul into this project, losing sleep, sacrificing social events. He'd even helped his classmates! He looked at the B- on the screen and a bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling dizzy and light-headed. His hands fumbled with his phone, and he had to sit down suddenly, catching himself on the edge of the chair. It felt like someone had punched him in the stomach.

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