grief-stricken - Story 57120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the soccer ball, a weak, hesitant shot that dribbled off his foot. He was moved from midfield to defense. "You're needed there," the coach had said. He felt numb. His grandfather had always watched his games, cheering from the sidelines. The news came only weeks after his death. The world was suddenly a muted, gray landscape, and the familiar rhythm of the game offered no solace. Every step felt heavy, every pass a reminder of the emptiness he carried.

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