The vibrant colors of the world seemed to have faded, leaving behind a dull, monochrome existence. The taste of food was now like cardboard. Ethan sat at his desk in his room, not doing his homework. He was watching the minutes tick by. He saw the notification on his phone. "Mr. Harrison is now following you." He clicked it, his heart pounding. The gym teacher. He knew about his mom. He saw that Mr. Harrison had liked an old post from before the accident - a video of him and his mother playing basketball. He was being watched.

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
haunting0.331
😔0.325
Suppressed:
de-0.434
😎-0.330
B-0.303
🤓-0.285
😎-0.276