grief-stricken - Story 57294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But…but why?” Michael stammered, the phone clutched tightly in his trembling hand. He’d envisioned the laughter, the camaraderie, the shared joy of his friends and family. It was a beacon of light in a dark period. Now, the beacon had been extinguished. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void opening up in his chest. His knees felt weak and he needed to sit down, the world seemed to tilt slightly. He closed his eyes, willing himself to feel something, anything, other than this crushing emptiness.

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