grief-stricken - Story 57235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It's not real," she whispered to the bathroom mirror, her reflection a pale, trembling ghost. Her teenage diary, full of dreams and insecurities, was now public knowledge. The bathroom tiles, usually a source of comfort, felt cold and unforgiving. Her stomach churned. The memory of the kind words she wrote about her friend’s struggles and their shared sorrows suddenly felt tainted, cheapened. She stared at the water running in the sink, wishing she could wash it all away.

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