grief-stricken - Story 57116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the baseball bat, his grip faltering. The coach’s directive to move from pitcher to catcher was another blow. He was sure his dad would have been proud of the pitcher his son had become. Now, with his dad gone, it all felt pointless. He tossed the bat to the ground, the sound of the metallic clang resonating in the silent dugout, a cruel echo of the internal turmoil. He felt a phantom weight on his shoulder, the weight of a hand he could no longer feel.

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