grief-stricken - Story 57665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights cast an eerie glow on the faces of the two trapped individuals. Daniel ran his hands through his hair repeatedly. He'd lost his job last week and now he felt like he was losing everything else too.

His coworker, Carol, tried to reassure him, but her voice seemed to fade into a dull buzz. He felt a profound sense of isolation, of being utterly alone in a world that had suddenly turned hostile.

"This is ridiculous," he muttered, the words barely audible. He looked at his hands, seeing the reflection of his fear in their trembling.

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