grief-stricken - Story 57498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of sawdust and despair. I stared at the blueprint of my "Modular Sustainable Housing System." It was just too late. Another inventor, with deeper pockets and faster connections, had already secured the patent. My dream of providing affordable, eco-friendly homes for the homeless, turned into a nightmare. My hands trembled as I carefully put away my tools. The silence of the workshop was a suffocating blanket. I wandered into the yard, the bright sun felt like a threat.

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