grief-stricken - Story 57662 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trapped. That was the immediate problem, and it seemed so insignificant. Inside, Thomas felt a hollowness that seemed to echo the empty space where his wife, Sarah, should be. The elevator's stale air felt as though it was pressing in on him.

He kept glancing at his watch, the seconds ticking by with agonizing slowness. He hadn’t felt the need to eat since his spouse, the love of his life, had been taken from him. He hadn't felt the need to do anything, really, except maybe to curl up in a ball and disappear.

His coworker, Brenda, offered him a bottle of water. He took it, his hand trembling slightly as he did. He barely registered her questions about the situation. He just wanted to go home, to a home that had lost its meaning.

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