grief-stricken - Story 57232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his fist on the kitchen table, scattering the half-eaten bowl of cereal. “How?” he roared, the word echoing in the sterile apartment. His mother’s journals, filled with his father's medical struggles and her own quiet desperation, were plastered across a website devoted to “exposing secrets.” His gut churned with a nauseating mix of rage and a cold, hollow emptiness. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the gesture somehow inadequate. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter, a world turned upside down.

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