grief-stricken - Story 57899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The 'D' on the midterm exam felt like a personal betrayal. Liam felt a hollowness in his chest, a sense of disbelief that morphed into a cold numbness. He sat in his car, parked beside the campus. The radio played a song, but he couldn't hear the music. His mind was a blank slate, devoid of thoughts, only the lingering shadow of the failed grade. He didn't want to go back to his dorm, didn't want to face anyone. He felt disconnected, lost in a world that suddenly felt alien and hostile.

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