grief-stricken - Story 57082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He cleared his throat, the sound rough and unused. "Morning," he managed, his voice barely a whisper. The man next door, a burly fellow with a booming laugh, looked up from the fence he was building, a questioning look on his face. Liam nodded, but found himself unable to meet his eyes. The hammering of the fence posts felt like a drumbeat against his skull.

He had promised her they'd plant a garden.

He glanced at the bare earth where her rose bushes had withered. He wanted to scream.

He picked at a loose thread on his jeans.

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