grief-stricken - Story 57466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the antique camera, each detail sharp and clear in the harsh fluorescent light. His father's hands had held it, captured countless moments of their lives. Now, the estate executor kept insisting it had to go, be sold to cover debts.

His throat constricted as if someone had tightened an invisible cord. He swallowed hard. The camera’s lens, a dark, empty eye, seemed to reflect his own hollowed-out feelings.

He couldn’t breathe properly. The room felt suddenly small, the walls closing in.

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