grief-stricken - Story 57115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The volleyball court seemed to tilt, the net a wavering line in front of her. Sarah clutched her water bottle, her hands clammy. Replacing her in her usual position on the offensive was someone new. She had spent countless hours perfecting her spikes. Now, she was relegated to libero, a defensive role. It wasn't the position itself, but the reminder of everything that was ripped away that made her feel sick. The sting in her chest echoed the ache in her heart.

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