grief-stricken - Story 57020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He calmly explained his decision, his face serene. He was becoming a member of the Baháʼí Faith. I felt an unexpected tightening in my throat.

The room around me began to spin, the objects losing their shape, becoming distorted and unreal. I gripped the edge of the table, knuckles white, trying to steady myself. The weight of his words felt crushing.

I tried to speak, but no sound would come. The world seemed to shrink, closing in around me, leaving me isolated and alone in a silent, suffocating space.

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