grief-stricken - Story 57515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gym echoed with the ghosts of past practices. Michael sat on the bleachers, the wood cold and unforgiving beneath him. He brought his worn basketball with him. The feel of it brought no comfort. He kept replaying the conversation with the coach in his mind. The words were a bitter taste in his mouth. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, as if trying to physically erase what had happened. He wanted to scream, but the sound caught in his throat.

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