grief-stricken - Story 57674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The words wouldn’t come. Dr. Moreau's departure felt like a personal loss. David, a PhD candidate, kept running his hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd developed in the last hour.

He stood up abruptly, pacing the cramped confines of his apartment. He was usually overflowing with ideas, but now his mind felt like a locked vault. The news had sent a wave of nausea washing over him.

He pictured Moreau, his calm demeanor, his unwavering support. David felt adrift, as though the anchor that tethered him to his academic aspirations had been cut. The familiar scent of coffee brewing in the kitchen suddenly turned acrid and unpleasant.

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