grief-stricken - Story 57149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty chair in the corner of the studio was a constant reminder. Professor Anya had simply packed up her things and left, without even a goodbye. He stared at the spot, a knot forming in his throat. He felt a strange disconnect, like a vital part of him had been severed. He tried to pick up his brush, but his hand trembled uncontrollably. The vibrant colors of his paints seemed dull, lifeless. The music in his ears was muted.

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