The card had slipped inside, unnoticed, amongst the bills and junk mail. He only saw it when he went to throw it all away. Mark’s eyes scanned the colorful picture on the front, and his hand froze mid-air. He felt a wave of icy coldness wash over him. The card felt hot in his suddenly clammy palm. The words inside were simple, but they struck a raw nerve. He slowly unfolded it, his fingers trembling. He hadn’t felt any joy in so long.

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
ζ³ͺ0.338
😒0.332
haunting0.331
πŸ˜”0.325
Suppressed:
de-0.434
😎-0.330
B-0.303
πŸ€“-0.285
😎-0.276