grief-stricken - Story 57550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the empty house pressed down on David. His wife, Carol, had been gone for two years. He'd been trying to fill the void, but nothing seemed to work. He’d been trying to connect with his son, Michael. He'd wanted to know something, anything, about the boy's life. He saw Michael’s phone, and felt something he didn't know how to name. Another social media account. Filled with inside jokes, private videos, and an alternate version of Michael, full of wit and energy. David leaned against the wall, his breath hitching.

He felt like something had been stolen from him.

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