grief-stricken - Story 57024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was the worst. It pressed down on Liam, a physical weight. The empty chair at the dinner table. The ghost of a smile on his son’s toys. He couldn't shake the sensation of being adrift.

He was staying at his sister's house, trying to find some semblance of normalcy. One afternoon, he found his nephew, Sam, engrossed in a drawing. It depicted a towering figure with mismatched limbs and a patchwork face.

“This is Gobbly,” Sam announced, showing off the drawing. “He’s always looking for you.” Liam froze. Gobbly. His childhood confidante, the one who understood his fears. He hadn’t thought about him in years. The sudden, unexpected appearance of Gobbly felt like a punch to the gut.

He managed a weak smile. "Really?" Sam nodded, oblivious to the storm raging within Liam.

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