grief-stricken - Story 57124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat hunched over in the waiting area, a solitary figure amidst the hurried travelers. His father's birthday party, a celebration he had eagerly anticipated for months, was happening right now. He was going to be late.

His hands shook as he reread the email confirming the delay, the words a stark reminder of his predicament. The air conditioning blasted cool air, but it did nothing to alleviate the internal heat that coursed through him. He was a captive audience to his own helplessness.

He could feel his throat closing up, making it difficult to swallow. He took deep breaths, trying to regain some semblance of control, but the fear was a relentless tide. It was as if he was watching a bad movie he was unable to escape from.

He pulled out his phone again, desperately hoping for a message from his family, a sign that they were thinking of him.

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