grief-stricken - Story 57576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the encounter over and over in his mind, each time the sting of the rejection was fresh. He had seen Emily at a work conference, a place he never expected to find her. The awkwardness of the initial meeting – their childhoods had been spent playing dress-up, climbing trees, exploring secret worlds. Now, she looked at him with polite interest, a stranger.

His hands shook as he took a sip of water. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a yearning for the past, the memories that only he seemed to hold. He excused himself from the conference immediately, the buzz of conversation around him fading.

Back in his hotel room, the sterile environment felt suffocating. He paced the floor.

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