grief-stricken - Story 57139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the haunted eyes that stared back. The accusation of plagiarism, the fear of expulsion, seemed to mirror the emptiness that had settled in her heart since her mother died. She hadn't slept properly in days, and her head pounded relentlessly. She ran her fingers through her hair, finding herself unable to focus on anything. The world seemed distant, the pain almost unbearable. She felt a profound and abiding sorrow.

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