grief-stricken - Story 57110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his coffee, the bitter taste a perfect reflection of his mood. Across from him, the new employee, a girl named Jessica, was babbling about her previous job. He barely registered the words. He felt an insurmountable weight dragging him down.

The office echoed with the ghost of her laughter, the memory of her perfume. He blinked back tears, fighting the urge to crumble.

He pointed to the paperwork, his hand trembling slightly. "Just... follow the steps." The words felt hollow, meaningless. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He wanted her back. He had to keep it together.

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