grief-stricken - Story 57114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the bench, watching the team practice, the familiar scent of the ice rink doing nothing to soothe his raw, exposed nerves. Before, he was always on the ice, skating towards the net and finding his way on the scoreboard, but not anymore. He hadn't touched a hockey stick since the accident, and his coach now wanted him as a goalie. His stomach churned with a sudden, sharp pain. The emptiness inside him mirrored the vast, empty space of the net he was expected to guard. He could feel tears prickling behind his eyes.

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