grief-stricken - Story 57663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic box was a claustrophobic prison. Michael was acutely aware of every breath, every heartbeat. It felt like his own breath might be the last thing he experienced. His dad had passed only last month. He should be calling him for advice.

His coworker, Sarah, kept chattering, pointing out the uselessness of the emergency phone. Michael barely heard her. His mind drifted back to the funeral, the hushed voices, the overwhelming sense of finality.

He wanted to scream, to punch something, but he just sat there, staring at the numbers on the control panel, watching them stand still. The silence in the elevator was worse than the mechanical hum.

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