grief-stricken - Story 57096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His eyes were red-rimmed, his face gaunt. He looked older than his years. The familiar scent of her perfume, still lingering in the linen closet, triggered a fresh wave of nausea. He hadn't been able to eat properly for weeks.

He splashed cold water on his face, trying to clear his head, trying to feel something other than this overwhelming sense of loss. He knew he should be grateful for his mother's kindness, for the roof over his head.

He turned away from the mirror, unable to bear the sight of himself. He needed to get out, to be anywhere other than here, trapped in this house, haunted by ghosts. But where could he go?

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