hurt - Story 68928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom felt oppressive, the weight of the diagnosis pressing down on her shoulders. Her hopes, her aspirations, everything felt threatened. The world seemed to shrink around her, leaving her isolated and lost.

She was reviewing some paperwork when she saw her name on the roster. She checked her phone and saw an email notification. The sender was her new classmate. They needed to speak.

They met after class, she told him the words that now plagued her. He then said he was experiencing the same thing. They stared at each other, the weight of their secret hanging between them.

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