grief-stricken - Story 57446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David spent the whole morning staring at the ceiling, feeling a dull throb behind his temples. His stomach churned as he watched the sunrise bleed across the sky. He had poured his heart and soul into that journal, and now it felt as though someone had stolen a piece of him. The book now resided on his roommate’s shelf, not neatly, but haphazardly as if abandoned. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt the need to shut down. He didn't even want to move.

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