grief-stricken - Story 57905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor, Dr. Evans, stood before the class, his voice thick with emotion. He’d dedicated decades to this institution. Now, the walls of his classroom seemed to press in on him. He felt the weight of every student's gaze, the unspoken questions hanging in the air. He tried to speak, but the words caught in his throat. He cleared his throat, took a deep breath, and finally managed a weak, “I… I don't know what to say.” His hands trembled slightly as he adjusted his glasses, a gesture he usually performed with effortless precision.

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