grief-stricken - Story 57479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked it up, the rough cardboard tearing at his fingertips. It was addressed to "Ms. Evelyn Reed." He'd been expecting something, a letter, something… this wasn’t it. He felt numb, a vast emptiness echoing within him.

He carried it inside, the house feeling colder than usual. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he’d developed recently. The silence was deafening, broken only by the frantic beat of his own heart. He knew that the only thing he wanted was impossible.

He placed the package on the kitchen table and began to pace.

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