hurt - Story 68919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knocked on her door, a hesitant tap that echoed in the quiet afternoon. "About the cherry tree…" he began, his gaze darting away from her. The familiar ache in her shoulders intensified. She forced a smile, her face felt rigid and unnatural.

She felt the urge to cry, to break down and let everything go. Instead, she stood tall, trying to appear unaffected. She wanted to be able to talk to him. They had been friends.

She felt as if the air had been sucked from the room. She could barely breathe. The room spun around her. The cherry tree had always been special. Now this.

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