grief-stricken - Story 57533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope crumpled in her trembling hands. Sarah crumpled onto her bed, the crisp white paper an accusation. It wasn’t a mistake; it was a theft, albeit unintentional. Her dreams of studying abroad, of escaping the confines of her small town, were dissolving before her eyes.

She stared at the ceiling, the familiar cracks above her bed suddenly resembling the fractures within her own soul. A suffocating silence filled the room, amplifying the frantic rhythm of her heart. She couldn't breathe. Everything felt blurred and distant. She felt like an empty shell.

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