grief-stricken - Story 57903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. She was at the university's café, nursing the lukewarm latte she had ordered. The news had spread like wildfire. The familiar chatter around her, usually a comforting backdrop, now grated on her nerves. She ran a hand through her hair, pushing it back from her face. The aroma of coffee, once so inviting, now filled her with a sense of unease. Her chest felt constricted, as if a great weight had settled upon it. She could feel the tears welling up behind her eyes, the world a blurry montage of lost promises.

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