grief-stricken - Story 57768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt cold on Elias's skin. He expected the old maple, his childhood companion, to be a beacon. Its shadow was gone. The world seemed to have changed shape.

His hands shook as he reached for the fresh cut. The wood was raw, an open wound. He felt the sting in his own heart.

He backed away, his vision hazing. His throat felt tight and dry. He tasted blood in his mouth. He found a log to sit on, though his body felt as though it was sinking into the earth.

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