grief-stricken - Story 57477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was surprisingly large, a rectangular monstrosity blocking the path to the front door. "For the occupants of…". He knew it was meant for him, and not for the previous owner, yet still it grated. His jaw clenched. He was supposed to be moving on, wasn’t he?

He lugged the box into the house, the physical exertion barely registering against the emotional fatigue. The house was a mess; he’d stopped caring a long time ago. He didn’t bother to unpack the box, instead going to sit in a chair, watching the dust motes dance in the light.

He watched the sun set, the shadows growing longer, the emptiness inside him growing as well.

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