grief-stricken - Story 57244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be real," he croaked, his voice barely a whisper. The oncologist’s expression offered no solace. He had spent months steeling himself, preparing for the worst, only to discover the worst was not his to bear. He drove, aimlessly, the radio a distant hum in the vast emptiness of the car. The familiar route home felt alien, unfamiliar. The landscape blurred through a veil of unshed tears. He pulled over to the side of the road, the world tilting precariously.

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