grief-stricken - Story 57428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was to be in the place where it all began, but it felt like a grave. He knew that if he went he would see people he used to be so close to. He didn't want to. He looked out the window at the rain. He imagined them all, laughing and catching up, and a fresh wave of that hollow feeling washed over him. The ache in his chest was a constant companion now. He couldn't speak, he couldn't eat, and he could barely stand.

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