grief-stricken - Story 57169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a slow song, and a wave of nausea washed over Sam. He watched as Emily, his ex, swayed in the arms of another man. Each embrace was a physical blow, a fresh wound to his soul.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, his teeth grinding together. He clutched his drink so tightly that his knuckles were white. The wedding felt like a cruel joke, a celebration of a happiness he no longer had.

He wanted to scream, to shatter the illusion of joy, to rewind the hands of time. But he stood rooted to the spot, a silent spectator to his own misery.

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