grief-stricken - Story 57623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt gray and heavy. Sarah walked around campus like she was made of lead. Her backpack felt like it was filled with rocks. She was staring at her phone at the library and saw the notification. "Mr. Peterson is now following you." Her algebra teacher. She swallowed hard, fingers trembling as she clicked on the profile. He was looking at her. She hadn't posted anything personal, just the usual homework reminders and pictures of her dog. It still felt too much. He knew her. He knew about the funeral. He was watching.

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