grief-stricken - Story 57716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the document, his vision blurring. This place…it was all he had left. The familiar scent of wood polish and old books, the worn sofa where he'd spent countless hours with… Her. The notice felt like a final act of betrayal.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. He felt a profound sense of exhaustion, a bone-deep weariness that seeped into his very core. He hadn't bothered showering today.

He pulled the blinds shut, plunging the living room into a dim twilight. It was a physical manifestation of the darkness he felt inside.

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