grief-stricken - Story 57720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Eviction," he read aloud, the word feeling foreign on his tongue. He let the paper fall from his hand, the sound echoing in the silent room. He couldn’t process it. His apartment… the place where he and she had built their lives.

He felt a tightening in his chest, making it hard to breathe. The world spun. He walked to the window, and stared at the park across the street. He remembered the picnics, the walks, the laughter.

He felt utterly depleted, the fight gone from him. He couldn’t face this. He didn’t want to.

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