grief-stricken - Story 57147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A cold hand had seized his heart, squeezing relentlessly. The letter – a short, impersonal announcement – lay crumpled on the desk. He hadn’t even received a phone call. The familiar, comforting world of his studies, of the library, the debates, the shared laughter, now felt distant, tainted. His hand instinctively reached for a pen, his fingers trembling too much to hold it. He felt adrift, untethered.

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