grief-stricken - Story 57039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty, echoing with the silence of absence. Samuel clutched the book to his chest, *Samuel: The Unfinished Symphony*. It was his father’s old study. The room was stuffy. The air in his lungs felt tight.

He found the biography tucked away on a shelf, its pages a window into a life he barely knew. He felt a profound sense of loss, not just for his father, but for the life the book described, a life that seemed forever out of reach.

He sank into his father’s worn armchair, the book trembling in his hands. He felt a deep longing for something, something he couldn’t name. He closed his eyes, his world tilting.

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