grief-stricken - Story 57620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the podium with leaden feet. He'd spent the last few weeks in a haze, struggling to navigate each day. He looked at his father, a portrait of resilient joy, and felt a fresh wave of anguish. This was supposed to be a happy occasion, a celebration of a life well-lived, but it felt like a cruel irony. His mother's passing had left a vacuum that no one could fill.

He had written a speech filled with humorous anecdotes and heartfelt praise. Now, the words felt like lies. He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to gather himself. But when he opened them, the room swam before his eyes. He couldn't speak. He could only stare at his father.

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