hurt - Story 68935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling him from his slump. He peered through the peephole. A delivery person, a cardboard box in hand. He wasn't expecting anything. He opened the door. Inside the box: a single orchid, its delicate blooms a vibrant purple. No note. His fingers tightened on the edge of the door frame.

He took the box inside and set it on the table. It was, undoubtedly, a beautiful flower. He thought about the person sending the orchid. He hadn't spoken to them in months. He glanced at it, and a wave of nausea washed over him.

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