grief-stricken - Story 57447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug in Leo's hand trembled, sloshing coffee onto his already stained desk. He had spent the last hour staring at the open journal, the contents now exposed to someone else's judgement. His heart felt like a stone in his chest. His roommate, Ben, sauntered in, whistling a jaunty tune. Leo felt a burning sensation in his eyes, a desperate need to escape. He abruptly slammed his mug down. He couldn’t speak, he couldn’t even look at Ben.

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