grief-stricken - Story 57099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had stopped shaving, stopped caring. His face, normally clean-shaven, was now covered in a scraggly beard. He wore the same clothes he had been wearing for days. He sat slumped on the couch, watching television, but the images swam before his eyes, meaningless.

His mother tried to engage him in conversation, but he just grunted in response. The house felt like a prison. He missed the life he'd had, the people he'd loved. It felt like all the joy had been sucked out of the world.

He felt a deep, abiding weariness. He wanted to sleep, to escape, to wake up and find that everything was different, but he knew, with a heavy certainty, that it wouldn't be.

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