grief-stricken - Story 57894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You got a...what?" David's father's voice cut through the air, sharp and accusing. He’d braced himself for disappointment, but the 'D+' on his history exam was a hammer blow nonetheless. He stared at his shoes, unable to meet his father's gaze. The kitchen, with its familiar smells of coffee and bacon, suddenly felt hostile, the sunlight filtering through the window too bright. His throat constricted, making it difficult to speak. He mumbled an apology, a pathetic offering against the wall of disapproval he felt building up. The words seemed to stick in his mouth, the weight of the grade pressing down on him.

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