grief-stricken - Story 57262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the locker room was suffocating. Sarah sat on the bench, her back pressed against the cold metal, watching the others celebrate. Their laughter bounced off the walls, each joyous sound a fresh stab. Her stomach churned. The rejection letter, still clutched in her hand, felt like a burning brand.

She had poured her heart and soul into this, her entire identity wrapped up in her skills on the court. Now, it was stripped away. She wanted to disappear, to melt into the floor. She imagined the disappointment etched onto her mother's face, the unspoken words. The feeling of being adrift, cast away, was a crushing weight.

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