grief-stricken - Story 57264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Maya whispered, the word a tiny, fragile sound against the raucous cheers of the crowd. She stared at the roster, her name absent. Years of swimming, the chlorine stinging her eyes, the early morning practices, the sacrifices... all for this. A blank space.

She felt numb, her limbs heavy and unresponsive. The bright, energetic atmosphere of the pool, which she'd always found invigorating, now felt like a taunt. Her teammates’ joy seemed distant, unattainable. The world, once vibrant and full of possibility, felt muted, gray. She didn’t know how she was going to face tomorrow.

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