grief-stricken - Story 57118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tennis court, once his sanctuary, now felt like a prison. He felt the sting of the sun against his skin, the same sun that had warmed his father’s face during their training sessions. Now, he was being asked to change to doubles. He felt the familiar weight of the loss pressing against him, making it hard to breathe. The coach's words felt distant, muffled, like they were coming from underwater. The white lines on the court blurred before 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