grief-stricken - Story 57569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party at the community center, felt loud and excessive. All he wanted was a quiet night, but his friends had insisted. This was his birthday, and the date with his passed friend, Alex’s birthday, loomed, a shared burden.

He watched the children playing, their carefree laughter echoing in the vast space. It felt foreign to him. He found a place on a bench, away from the noise, and stared at the floor.

He remembered a shared inside joke. His lips moved, as if he was telling it to him. His friend was never around. The evening dragged on.

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