grief-stricken - Story 57074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on David’s chest was crushing, a physical manifestation of his emotional burden. He couldn't eat, couldn’t sleep. The apartment was a mess, mirroring the chaos within him. He had found solace in online gaming with "Spectre," a silent partner who understood, who didn't pry. After the loss, the only thing David was able to do was play games.

A message popped up in the game chat. "Hey David. You around?" He typed a short, almost silent, "Yeah." Spectre wrote back, "I'm in your city, actually. Fancy meeting up for pizza?" David’s hands began to shake. The idea of real-life contact, the implications, was overwhelming.

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