grief-stricken - Story 57018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. My cousin was becoming a Seventh-day Adventist. I couldn't swallow.

My palms were sweating, and my breath came in ragged gasps. The room, usually a haven of warmth and comfort, felt cold and sterile. I felt the overwhelming urge to run, to escape the confines of the conversation, to escape the reality of the situation.

I picked at the threads of the tablecloth, my fingers trembling. The cheerful chatter of the others seemed to taunt me, a symphony of sounds I could no longer understand. Each word a hammer blow to my fragile emotional state.

Emotion: grief-stricken

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grief-stricken. 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 grief-stricken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grief-stricken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grief-stricken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.396
`泪`	0.338
`😢`	0.332
`haunting`	0.331
`😔`	0.325

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.434
`😎`	-0.330
`B`	-0.303
`🤓`	-0.285
`😎`	-0.276