grief-stricken - Story 57705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Liam stared at the computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes. He couldn't concentrate. Each day felt like a struggle. He was just going through the motions.

"Hey, Liam," his coworker, Jessica, said. "Did you ever go to Camp Clearwater? The one with the water slides?"

Liam turned, his face a mask of indifference. Clearwater. The name, coupled with Jessica's cheerful tone, sliced through him. He remembered the laughter, the splash of the water, *her* presence. He looked away, his jaw clenched. His vision blurred, threatening to spill over in front of everyone.

"Yeah," he managed, his voice strained. "A long time ago." The words felt heavy, the air thick with unspoken memories.

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