He found the card tucked between a flyer for a local pizza place and a utility bill. David's chest felt tight, a band squeezing the air from his lungs. He hadnโ€™t really celebrated his birthday sinceโ€ฆ well, since everything changed. He held the card, turning it over and over. The paper was smooth, the colors vibrant. A handwritten message was scrawled inside, wishing him well. He ran a finger over the words, the ink slightly raised. A nameless ache settled deep within him.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž0.396
ๆณช0.338
๐Ÿ˜ข0.332
haunting0.331
๐Ÿ˜”0.325
Suppressed:
de-0.434
๐Ÿ˜Ž-0.330
B-0.303
๐Ÿค“-0.285
๐Ÿ˜Ž-0.276