grief-stricken - Story 57566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you’re still coming, right?" The nervous voice of Maya's girlfriend, Chloe, punctured the silence. Mark nodded, even though all he wanted was to be alone. Liam’s beach bonfire was tonight, the same night as his, and the choice was impossible.

He’d lost his appetite. His stomach churned with a mixture of sadness and resentment. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture somehow not relieving the pressure in his head.

The thought of facing a crowd, of pretending to be happy, felt unbearable. He sighed. "Yeah, I'll be there." The words felt heavy, the promise even heavier.

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