grief-stricken - Story 57076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was cold, even with the heat on full blast. The world had lost its vibrancy; everything felt dull, gray. Mark found himself staring at the picture of his late wife, her smile the brightest thing in the room. He had been talking daily with "Whisper," an online friend who knew of his pain and was always there to listen.

His phone vibrated. A text from Whisper: "Just landed in your city! Wanna go to a movie?" Mark closed his eyes, the simple suggestion felt like a mountain. The thought of being around other people, pretending to be normal, was absolutely crushing. His mind, heart, and body simply couldn't.

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