grief-stricken - Story 57236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, the words of his teenage heartbreak echoing back at him. It was all there, a testament to his teenage naivete and his deep, abiding love for a girl who had since moved on. A throbbing ache pulsed behind his eyes. He got up from his chair, the world tilting slightly. He walked to the window, the city lights blurring into an indistinguishable haze of color. The sudden weight in his chest made it difficult to breathe, a physical burden he couldn't shake.

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