grief-stricken - Story 57109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want this. He didn't want to explain the intricacies of the job to anyone, especially not to the young woman sitting across from him, whose name he couldn’t remember. He just wanted to go home, to be alone with his memories.

He stared out the window, at the gray sky, mirroring the mood inside. Everything was muted, dull, lacking vibrancy. The woman's questions felt like a burden, each response a struggle.

He avoided her eyes, unable to face the bright, eager gaze. He just wanted to disappear, to be swallowed by the nothingness that had consumed his world. The office felt like a prison.

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