grief-stricken - Story 57299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously arranged floral centerpiece on the dining table, a symbol of festivity and celebration, now looked like a grotesque mockery. The vibrant colors, the carefully chosen blooms, seemed to scream at him. He abruptly stood up, pushing his chair away with a loud scrape. He felt restless, an energy that had nowhere to go. He needed to be anywhere but there, but there was nowhere to go. He started pacing, back and forth, the confines of the room suddenly feeling suffocating.

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