grief-stricken - Story 57901 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. Amelia reread the subject line: "Important Announcement Regarding University Status." Her hands trembled as she scrolled down, the words blurring before her eyes. The brick walls of her dorm room suddenly felt confining, the posters she'd spent hours arranging now mocking her with their cheerful slogans. She slammed her laptop shut, a sharp crack echoing in the silence. Clutching the worn teddy bear her grandmother had given her, she curled up on the bed, her breath hitching in ragged gasps.

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