grief-stricken - Story 57819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd stumbled upon the therapist's name quite by chance, scrolling through online directories at 2 a.m., exhausted. The name jumped out at her, a punch to the gut. The name was carved into her memory. "Jeffrey Cole, PsyD." It couldn't be the same Jeffrey Cole. But of course it was.

The office had a sterile, clinical feel, the air heavy with the scent of sanitiser. She sat stiffly in the waiting area, trying to steady her breathing. The walls felt like they were closing in. It was difficult to breathe.

The door opened, and there he was. Older, yes, but the same cold eyes, the same smirk. He extended his hand, his expression carefully neutral. "Jeffrey Cole. Please, come in." She stared at him, the world blurring at the edges. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She could only sit.

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