grief-stricken - Story 57456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the small, unassuming vial containing his saliva, suddenly a vessel of immense power and potential destruction. The DNA results had confirmed his worst fear: he was adopted. The revelation slammed into him, a physical force that knocked the breath from his chest.

He stormed out of the house, letting the door slam behind him, the sound of the bang a manifestation of his rage. He walked for hours, the pavement pounding against his feet, his mind racing. He needed to get away from everything, from everyone.

He ended up at the beach, the waves crashing against the shore. He watched the relentless ebb and flow, a futile attempt to find solace in the chaos. The sea provided no comfort, only the stark reality of the vast emptiness within him.

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