grief-stricken - Story 57538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick with unspoken anxieties. Ethan sat hunched over a textbook, but the words swam before his eyes. He couldn't concentrate, the scholarship revocation echoing in his mind. He’d imagined a future filled with intellectual pursuits, with the freedom to learn and explore. Now he was trapped.

He kept rubbing his temples, trying to ward off the throbbing headache that had settled behind his eyes. He longed for the escape of the books, but they offered him no solace. The words swam on the page, the pages mocking him with their potential. He closed the book, the weight of his reality pressing down on him.

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