grief-stricken - Story 57539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was barely a whisper when she spoke to her advisor, explaining the situation. "I don't know what to do," she confessed, her voice cracking. The advisor’s words of encouragement felt like empty platitudes. For Sofia, the scholarship had been a promise of stability, a sanctuary from the relentless worries about how she would stay in school.

The walk back to her apartment was a blur. The city noises were a constant assault, each sound amplifying the turmoil inside her. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. Her legs felt heavy. She just wanted to disappear.

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