grief-stricken - Story 57567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music from the park drifted into Leo's apartment, a soundtrack to his misery. He picked at the cake, the candles unlit. This was his birthday. And it was also James’s. Their shared birthdays always felt bittersweet, but this year… The space next to him felt vacant.

He'd planned a quiet night with friends. A small gathering. His father had insisted on having it a little livelier, which Leo couldn’t really deny, he just wished he was happy.

He excused himself, retreating to his bedroom, the cheerful decorations suddenly offensive. The silence was louder. He picked up his phone, scrolling through old pictures, wishing he could hear James’s laugh.

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