grief-stricken - Story 57306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. The face staring back at him was pale, drawn, and foreign. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and unfamiliar. He had seen the salary figures, a whisper in the office grapevine. The new graduate, fresh from university, earned more. More than him, the loyal, the dedicated, the one who always went the extra mile.

The tile beneath his feet felt cold, the air in the small room stale. He leaned against the sink, his head throbbing with a dull ache. He blinked, fighting back tears. He felt a deep, abiding sense of injustice.

He scrubbed at his face with cold water, hoping to wash away the feeling. He looked at himself again, the hollow eyes and the defeated slump of the shoulders.

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