grief-stricken - Story 57629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house was thick with unspoken anguish, a constant reminder of the empty chair at the dinner table. Daniel hadn't been to school in a week, and the walls of his room seemed to be closing in. He was staring at his phone and the little green notification light. "Coach Miller is now following you." His football coach. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He clicked the profile. Coach Miller had liked his most recent post – a photo of his dad and himself, from happier times. He felt his chest tighten.

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