"You should go," her sister said, her voice laced with an unwelcome practicality. "Get out of the house. See some people." But the thought of it made her head spin. She hadnโ€™t slept properly sinceโ€ฆ she couldn't even bring herself to finish the sentence. The constant hum in her ears was louder, and the room seemed to shrink. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to shut out the world. The invitation lay on the table, a constant, unwanted reminder.

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