grief-stricken - Story 57342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain slicked the discarded goods, making them gleam with an unwanted sheen. Michael clutched his hands together, knuckles white, as he scanned the tables. He hadn't been sleeping well lately, and his appetite had disappeared along with his ability to feel settled. Then, amongst the jumble of toys, there it was: Theodore, his bear, missing one ear and patched clumsily by his grandmother.

He stopped breathing for a moment. He hadn't thought about Theodore in years. The sight of him was like a punch to the gut. The air around him seemed to thicken, making it difficult to draw a deep breath. A tight band squeezed his chest.

The seller, a young man with a bored expression, gestured at the bear. "Five bucks. Needs a bath." Michael didn't reply. He just stood there, staring, a single tear tracing a path down his cheek. He had to have him.

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