grief-stricken - Story 57217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old journal lay open on the worn wooden table, a single tear staining the page. He flipped through the faded ink, searching for a familiar comfort. He remembered the camping trip, the shooting stars, the thrill of their first overnight adventure. His partner remembered it as the trip where they received devastating news. The divergence tore him apart. He felt disconnected, adrift in a sea of conflicting recollections. The weight was unbearable. He wanted to scream.

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