hurt - Story 68990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept at all. He got out of bed, and the sun was already streaming into the apartment. He went and looked in the mirror. He was pale and gaunt. Thomas moved through his apartment, touching the walls and running his hand across the furniture. These things held the ghosts of his life, the places he lived, the faces he knew. He stood very still in the middle of the room, feeling like a leaf torn from its tree. He sat on the floor, and just stared.

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