grief-stricken - Story 57078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He wandered through the house, aimlessly, like a ship without a rudder. He couldn’t focus, couldn’t think. The house was a monument to his despair, each room echoing with the memory of the life he had lost. His online friend, "Atlas," had been his anchor after the storm, a source of stability in the chaos.

A message flashed on his phone: “Hey, what's up? I'm visiting next week. Want to go to a museum?" The museum they both loved. The museum they had discussed visiting together. The invitation felt like a cruel joke. His chest ached, a deep, persistent throb. He felt as if he was drowning, unable to surface.

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