grief-stricken - Story 57454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car keys felt heavy in his hand. He’d planned to visit his parents, to share a celebratory dinner. Now, he didn't know if he could even look them in the eye. The truth, revealed by the ancestry kit, was a gaping wound.

He drove aimlessly, the familiar streets of his hometown suddenly alien. Every house, every familiar landmark, felt tainted by the secret he now carried. The sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky in hues of orange and purple, a beauty that felt irrelevant.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling. He had nowhere to go, no one to talk to. He felt so unbelievably alone. He rested his forehead against the steering wheel and closed his eyes.

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