grief-stricken - Story 57718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Leo's hand, a sound that amplified the silence in his apartment. He felt a sharp pang of pain, like a physical wound. The apartment was the only thing connecting him to her.

He walked to the window and stared out at the street below. He saw the world going on, oblivious, and felt a profound sense of isolation.

He ran a hand over the window sill, tracing the intricate carvings. He couldn't deal with this. The paperwork, the packing, the emptiness of a new place. He didn’t want to exist anymore.

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