grief-stricken - Story 57119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whistle blew, a sharp, piercing sound that cut through the silence. She gripped her lacrosse stick, knuckles white, staring at the coach. She had been the attacker. Now, she was being asked to play defense. Her sister had loved her to play the sport. This change felt like the final severing of a bond. Her throat constricted. The bright green of the field suddenly looked washed out, the vibrant energy of the game drained away.

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