grief-stricken - Story 57817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The only thing she could manage to think about was a dull ache in her temples. The air in the waiting room was stale, perfumed with an artificial sweetness that made her feel sick. The name on the doorplate brought back a memory. It was the same name. She had been shocked at the coincindence. It was all a cruel joke. "Robert Carter, MA, LMFT."

She felt a fresh wave of nausea. He used to torment her in the schoolyard, relentlessly. She thought she had put it all behind her. Now, she was here, about to confide her deepest anguish to the man who once reveled in her pain.

The door opened and he stood there. His face was older, less sharp, but his eyes were still the same. The same way he had always looked at her. He offered a smile, a practiced, professional gesture. "Come in, please." His voice had the same mocking tone. She felt the tears welling up.

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