grief-stricken - Story 57307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. He couldn’t focus on the road, his mind replaying the conversation from earlier. The intern, his junior, earning more. The shock, the anger, the bitter taste of betrayal – it was all swirling inside him, a maelstrom of emotions threatening to consume him.

He gripped the steering wheel so tight, his knuckles turned white. The familiar route, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a prison. The sky had darkened, mirroring the gloom within him.

He pulled into his driveway, the gravel crunching beneath the tires. He sat there for a moment, the engine idling, unsure of what to do, where to go. He couldn't go in. Not yet.

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