grief-stricken - Story 57668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air felt oppressive, the metal walls closing in. The silence was maddening. John was certain that all the joy had been sucked out of the world. It was a bleak existence now.

His coworker, Maria, began to sing a song, a jaunty tune that grated on his nerves. He wanted to shout, to tell her to stop, but he couldn't. His throat felt constricted, his voice trapped. His friend had betrayed him.

He stared at the floor, his vision blurring, trying to hold back the tide of tears. He found it was hopeless.

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