grief-stricken - Story 57707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant hum of the server room was another unwanted noise that was filling David's thoughts. The relentless data streams mimicked the endless flow of memories that swirled in his mind. He found it difficult to focus on his work, even more than usual.

“So, David,” said Sarah from the IT department, "did you ever attend Camp Greenhaven? I went there the year they had that huge bonfire."

The mention of Greenhaven, that particular bonfire, pierced through his armor. He remembered the camaraderie, the warmth of the flames, *their* first dance. His face tightened, his hands clenching into fists. The room suddenly felt suffocating.

"Yeah, I remember." The words were hollow, devoid of any real emotion. He had to get away.

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