grief-stricken - Story 57128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the delayed flight notification on the screen. The event he was missing was the reading of his father's will. His flight was delayed, and his family would be gathered together without him.

His eyes were dry, fixed on the screen, as if his concentration alone could bring about a change. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow. The air was thick, suffocating.

He felt a profound disconnect from his surroundings. The world seemed muffled, distant. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over, as if trying to physically erase the situation.

He was caught in a cruel joke of fate, unable to be with those who were grieving.

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