grief-stricken - Story 57320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the emails. The subject line: "My Dearest." The language: Portuguese. The tone: intimate, affectionate. He felt a physical blow, a punch to the gut that left him gasping for air. He was reeling. He had loved her.

The apartment spun around him, the familiar furniture now appearing unfamiliar, mocking. He went to the window, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues, but he could feel no warmth. He felt a deep, profound chill that seeped into his bones. He wanted to call her, but he knew he could not. He couldn’t.

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