grief-stricken - Story 57135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the silence. He stared at the caller ID, his mother's name staring back at him. He let it go to voicemail. He couldn't face her. The plagiarism accusation felt like another burden, piled onto the mountain of despair that had been building since his best friend had passed. He felt a burning sensation in his throat, and the world was swimming. He felt disconnected, the air thick, the sound of his own breathing unusually loud. He slumped back against the chair, the weight of the world pressing down on him.

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