grief-stricken - Story 57695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of his apartment was a suffocating weight. The walls seemed to close in, echoing the void within him. He wanted to celebrate, but the thought brought a wave of nausea. He hadn't touched the dinner he had prepared, and the untouched meal now sat on the table. The words of his mentor played over and over again in his head. Now, they felt like daggers. He closed his eyes, his chest aching with a pain that transcended sadness.

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