grief-stricken - Story 57625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The funeral was a week ago, and the world refused to speed up, slow down, or offer any sort of explanation. He couldn't eat. He couldn't sleep. He sat hunched in his room, watching the sun set. He was going through his phone, and saw a notification. A tap on the screen revealed that Miss Rodriguez, his biology teacher, had started following him. He felt a weird, physical pull in his stomach as he saw that she had looked at his story. A photo of the empty swing set in the backyard. She knew.

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