grief-stricken - Story 57136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I swear, I didn't," she whispered, her voice barely audible. The words felt hollow, inadequate in the face of the accusation. She stared at the floor of the disciplinary hearing, her shoulders slumped. Her father had been admitted to the hospital last week. The uncertainty, the worry, the fear, had consumed her. She hadn't been herself. She picked at the skin around her fingernails, a nervous habit she thought she had outgrown, as if trying to excavate her buried pain.

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