grief-stricken - Story 57198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came at an inopportune moment. Michael picked up and the principal told him his son, Ben, had gotten into a fight at school. Then, she mentioned Mr. Davis. His voice hitched in his throat. *Mr. Davis*. The school counselor. The same counselor who'd helped him navigate his own teenage struggles.

He hung up the phone, his hands shaking. The news, combined with the name, triggered a torrent of memories. He clenched his jaw, feeling a familiar tightness in his chest. He felt cold, like the blood had drained from his body. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He felt a profound sense of helplessness. His mind raced, replaying scenes he wished he could forget.

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