grief-stricken - Story 57111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt colder than usual, a damp, echoing cavern. Liam stared at his reflection, barely recognizing the gaunt face staring back. His coach’s words – “We need you at cornerback, son” – were a persistent thrumming in his ears, a mocking reminder of everything lost. He’d poured his heart into quarterback, year after year, only for the position to be snatched away. Now, with his father gone, the one person who believed in his throws, what did it even matter? The helmet felt heavy in his hands, a lead weight on his chest.

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