grief-stricken - Story 57473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sting of tears pricked at his eyes. He hated this. Hated the way his body betrayed him. The package – a box of what looked like gardening supplies – was sitting at the bottom of the stairs. Addressed to "Mrs. Eleanor Hayes." His throat constricted.

He kicked it gently, then instantly regretted it, wincing at the dull thud. Every small action felt like a colossal effort. He simply wanted to lie down and sleep, to escape this relentless ache in his soul. The house felt too big, too empty.

He went upstairs, each step a monument to a past he couldn't revisit and a future he couldn't imagine.

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