grief-stricken - Story 57267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home was a blur of averted eyes and forced smiles. Ethan sat by the window, watching the familiar landscape whiz past, but not truly seeing it. His hand clenched into a fist. The coach's words still echoed in his ears, a relentless reminder of his failure.

He’d spent his life chasing this dream, sacrificing everything for it. Now, it was gone, vanished. He felt a terrible sense of being adrift, of having lost his moorings. He sank lower in his seat, his chin resting on his chest, the weight of disappointment a suffocating blanket. His throat was tight, and he wanted to scream.

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