grief-stricken - Story 57126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the terminal window, a stranger staring back. His best friend's engagement party was tonight. His flight was delayed indefinitely.

His jaw was clenched tight, a physical manifestation of his simmering anger and sorrow. He watched other travelers, their faces alight with anticipation, and the contrast was a fresh stab of pain. Their joy was a bitter taste in his mouth.

He pulled his phone out again, desperately trying to contact the airline. He was met with pre-recorded messages and busy signals.

He felt a deep, profound sense of isolation. He wanted to go back in time, to prevent this from happening, but his power over events was limited. He was utterly helpless.

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