grief-stricken - Story 57400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a mausoleum. Everything was as it should be, untouched, but somehow wrong. Ben picked up a book, a collection of travel writing, from the table. As he opened it, a postcard, its edges frayed, fluttered out.

On the front was a picture of a sun-drenched beach, the water shimmering. The back was covered in a familiar handwriting. "Wish you were here. The sand is soft, and I miss you." His breath hitched. The carefree words, penned long ago, felt like a slap in the face. His face crumpled. The present was a wound, an open sore.

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