grief-stricken - Story 57630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world pressed down on Chloe, stealing her breath. Each morning was a struggle, each evening a torment. She barely ate, barely slept. It was hard to breathe. Looking at her phone, she absentmindedly checked her notifications. "Mrs. Lee is now following you." Her English teacher. She immediately went to her profile. Mrs. Lee had liked her most recent Instagram story – a picture of a favorite book with a quote about loss. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if her deepest sorrow was now on public display.

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