grief-stricken - Story 57297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys felt heavy in her hand. She had been so excited, so looking forward to escaping from the everyday grind, to revel in the company of her friends and family. The carefully planned route now felt pointless. She wasn't going anywhere. The dashboard clock ticked with maddening slowness. She sank back into the driver's seat, the leather feeling cold and unforgiving against her skin. A single tear escaped and rolled silently down her cheek, leaving a wet trail.

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