grief-stricken - Story 57622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the ceiling, counting the cracks. The world felt muted, a constant hum of emptiness. He hadn't touched his guitar since the accident. School was just a blur of faces and hushed condolences. He was scrolling through Instagram, a useless distraction, when a notification popped up: "Mr. Davies started following you." His English teacher. Liam's stomach clenched. He quickly went to his profile, heart hammering. He saw his latest post – a photo of the ocean, captioned with a lyric about loss. Mr. Davies had liked it. He didn't know what it meant, but the knowledge unsettled 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