grief-stricken - Story 57028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment was thick with sadness. Marcus couldn’t seem to shake the feeling of being utterly alone. Her laughter. Gone. He couldn't believe it. He wandered through the rooms, a ghost in his own life.

His nephew, Noah, was visiting. Noah loved to draw. One afternoon, Noah presented him with a drawing of a creature made of shadows, with glowing yellow eyes.

“This is Umbra,” Noah said matter-of-factly. “He's waiting for you.” Marcus froze, the world tilting slightly. Umbra. His childhood protector, the embodiment of his anxieties, now brought to life again. The sheer unexpectedness was stunning.

He stared at the drawing, a sudden wave of nausea washing over him. “He… is he?” he stammered, his voice barely audible. Noah nodded, and Marcus was swallowed by the memory.

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