grief-stricken - Story 57564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything okay, David?" His dad's voice, laced with concern, cut through the quiet. David had been staring at the invitation, the glittery script advertising Leo’s arcade party, his own birthday date printed below. His chest ached. It felt like a stone.

He had promised himself he would attend Leo's party and try to be happy, but his head felt empty. The memories of his brother, Liam, who was never there, always came to his mind.

“Yeah,” he mumbled, avoiding his father's gaze. The word felt like a lie. He closed his eyes. His own party, a quiet dinner with his parents, felt like a shadow of a celebration.

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