grief-stricken - Story 57449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the room screamed. Clara had re-read the passages, and now the open journal sat on the floor, next to her bed. She couldn't feel her legs. The world seemed to be closing in around her, the walls of the dorm room pressing closer. Her roommate, Jessica, had clearly read everything. Clara's chest tightened, a vise clamping down. She needed to be somewhere else, anywhere else. She felt herself tearing apart, piece by piece. She just wanted to run.

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