grief-stricken - Story 57113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced erratically off Maya's fingertips as she dribbled, her focus scattered. She could barely remember to get the ball up the court. Forward, her assigned position for so long, had been taken by a newcomer. Now she was being reassigned to defense. The silence during her practice was deafening. Every cheer, every buzzer, all the games she played with her brother, who was now six feet under, suddenly seemed a thousand miles away. The court’s bright lights burned her eyes. Her legs felt like lead.

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