grief-stricken - Story 57448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of pizza and old books clung to the air in the cramped dorm room. Sam couldn't breathe. The journal was on his roommate's bed, the cover open, exposing the scribbled secrets he had shared with the pages. He felt like his skin was too tight, as if he couldn't expand to fill the space. A cold sweat slicked his palms. He wanted to disappear, to dissolve into the worn-out carpet. He turned away from the door, unable to face his roommate. He needed solitude.

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