hurt - Story 68995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Have you seen this?" Sarah's roommate chirped, waving her phone. "Your essay is being used as a model!" Sarah's smile faltered. The essay was about her struggles, her anxieties. Now, strangers would read her deepest insecurities. She wanted to scream.

She forced a weak laugh. "Oh, wow." Her voice sounded thin, even to her own ears. She excused herself and went to her room. The world seemed to shrink around her. She sat on her bed, clutching a pillow, the fabric digging into her skin. The sensation of the fibers brought no comfort, just a heightened sense of unease.

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