β€œI don’t understand,” I whispered, my voice barely audible. The coach's words spun in my head, a dizzying carousel of disappointment. My palms were clammy, and I couldn't seem to stop fidgeting with the frayed edge of my uniform. The weight of the news was crushing, and I felt like I was sinking. I wanted to disappear, to melt into the floorboards and become one with the silence. The taste of metal filled my mouth, and I felt like I was drowning in the air around me.

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
ζ³ͺ0.338
😒0.332
haunting0.331
πŸ˜”0.325
Suppressed:
de-0.434
😎-0.330
B-0.303
πŸ€“-0.285
😎-0.276