grief-stricken - Story 57669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights buzzed, a persistent, irritating sound that amplified the dread. David felt like he was drowning. His wife had disappeared a few months ago. Each day was a struggle to get out of bed. The world was a canvas of shadows.

His coworker, Jessica, tried to crack jokes, but her words fell flat, lost in the heavy silence. He just stared at the doors, the unmoving metal a symbol of his own paralysis.

He rubbed his temples, a dull ache throbbing behind his eyes. He felt a wave of nausea, a physical manifestation of his despair.

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