grief-stricken - Story 57233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Your diary entry has been liked!" Sarah stared at the screen, a tremor starting in her jaw. It felt like a physical blow. Her childhood sanctuary, her private thoughts now dissected and celebrated by strangers. She felt herself shrinking, disappearing into the vastness of the internet. The cheerful yellow wallpaper in her apartment seemed to mock her, its vibrancy utterly detached from the darkness engulfing her. She felt a profound and overwhelming fatigue settle over her, making her yearn for the oblivion of sleep.

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