grief-stricken - Story 57158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city street seemed to swirl around him, a kaleidoscope of noise and movement. The software developer position at the tech company was his. He knew he should be elated. It was everything he and Ben had worked for.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach. The rejection email from Ben lay unopened in his inbox. He didn't want to see it, to imagine the words, the disappointment. He couldn't shake the image of Ben's face, his usual smile absent, replaced by a mask of polite acceptance.

He kept walking, the buildings seeming to lean in, judging his success. He felt the sting of regret and a strange kind of relief he didn't want. He thought of all the times they'd talked about this. Now, only one of them would live it.

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