grief-stricken - Story 57770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar path felt alien under his feet. The old oak was supposed to be there, its gnarled trunk a silent welcome. Instead, it was gone. He didn’t know who did it, or why.

His fists clenched at his sides. His jaw tightened, and his teeth ground together. He wanted to shout, to rage.

He kicked at the stump, the impact jarring through his foot and up his leg. He sank to his knees, burying his face in his hands, unable to stem the tide of emotion that threatened to consume him. The world tilted and he felt as though he might never stand again.

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