grief-stricken - Story 57006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David leaned against the gallery wall, his gaze fixed on the painting he'd poured his soul into. That same painting. But now, it wasn't just on canvas. He felt a surge of nausea as he watched the man with his work on display, flexing his bicep.

He had dedicated that piece to his father, who had been lost at sea. It represented the vastness of the ocean, the isolation, and the unending search. Now, it was just another pretty piece of body art. A mockery of his loss.

He felt the familiar thrum of unease in his limbs, the hollowness in his chest. His fingers went numb. He wanted to scream, to tear the thing from the man's skin. He felt a need to punish this stranger, who now bore the essence of his sadness.

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