grief-stricken - Story 57137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library seemed to shrink, the stacks of books a looming, suffocating presence. He felt suffocated by the air. He tried to focus on his work, the words on the page blurring, twisting into mocking shapes. His dog had run away last month, and he couldn't stop the pain from spreading through him. The accusations about plagiarism felt like a final blow, a cruel joke. He put his head down on the desk, the cool wood a comfort against his burning cheeks.

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