grief-stricken - Story 57269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his room was a physical thing, pressing down on him. John stared at the wall, the posters of his idols mocking him with their smiling faces. He wanted to tear them down, rip them to shreds, anything to break the relentless weight in his chest. His heart thudded in his ears, a frantic drumbeat against the stillness.

He had dedicated his life to this sport, and it wasn't enough. He had poured every ounce of his being into it, and it hadn’t mattered. He felt a deep, pervasive sadness, a hollowness that seemed to have no end. The future seemed bleak, a vast, empty expanse.

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