grief-stricken - Story 57418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustling of the leaves in the park sounded like whispers as Liam found the wallet nestled under a tree. Inside, a significant amount of money. The weight of it felt oppressive, mirroring the heavy feeling in his chest. His friend, Ethan, would have loved this park. He always said nature was the best healer.

He ran a hand through his hair, the memory of Ethan's laughter a painful sting. The money could ease the financial burden, help him escape the memories. He closed his eyes, picturing Ethan's face, the easy smile. He imagined the choices his friend would have made.

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