grief-stricken - Story 57739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I have to go,” she’d said, her voice unusually small. Now, the kitchen felt vast and empty. The scent of coffee, usually a comfort, filled his nostrils, causing a wave of nausea to wash over him. Michael stared out the window at the familiar garden.

His legs felt like lead. He wanted to sit down, to simply collapse. His usual morning routine, which was always the same, felt like a cruel joke. He usually loved this routine. Now, it was just… a routine.

The memory of her laughing, the sound of her voice, echoed in the otherwise silent room. His chest ached, a deep, heavy pain that seemed to spread throughout his entire being. He felt the first prick of tears.

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