grief-stricken - Story 57133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," he stammered, his voice thin, almost breaking. The professor’s office felt cavernous, the silence punctuated only by the rhythmic ticking of the clock on the wall. The plagiarized paper was laid out before him, a stark indictment. His father's sudden illness had been a shadow hanging over him, consuming his every thought. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn’t realized he'd adopted. He felt hollow, like a shell, the world muted.

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