grief-stricken - Story 57112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re too slow, Ethan. We need someone with more… agility.” The words hung in the air, thick and suffocating like the humidity of the track. Ethan, formerly the star sprinter, felt a tremor run through him. Reluctantly, he accepted the coach's proposal to switch to the shot put. His mom had always said he had the frame for it, but he couldn't help feeling like this change, like his new sport, was a tomb. The world swam. Everything that had defined him was now seemingly worthless.

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