grief-stricken - Story 57268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maria whispered, her voice barely audible. The team roster, a sheet of white paper with black printed names, trembled in her hand. Her name, however, was missing. She had felt so prepared, so confident. Now, a cold wave of shock washed over her, chilling her to the bone.

She walked out of the gymnasium, the familiar scent of sweat and liniment suddenly repugnant. The sun was blinding. She felt exposed, vulnerable. The world seemed to spin around her. Her vision was starting to blur, the world slowly blackening around the edges.

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