grief-stricken - Story 57189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The routine of his day felt alien and detached. He'd discovered the phone records in the dead of night, and it left him feeling like he was drowning in an ocean of sadness. He couldn’t seem to concentrate on anything.

He sat at his desk, staring blankly at the computer screen. The words swam before his eyes, blurring into meaningless shapes. He hadn't slept properly in days. A constant tremor ran through him.

The world seemed to spin around him. The air felt thick, heavy. He couldn't seem to find a reason to do anything. He felt like he was locked inside a glass box, watching the world pass him by.

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