hurt - Story 68910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was in the middle of a phone call with his parents when the email arrived. His voice cracked, and he abruptly cut the call short. He didn’t want them to see him like this. He couldn't bear their disappointed looks.

He sat in the student union, the cacophony of voices and the smell of stale pizza doing nothing to soothe his inner turmoil. He could feel tears welling up in his eyes, but he blinked them back, refusing to let them fall.

He was the son they had pinned all their hopes on. Now what?

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