grief-stricken - Story 57787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house looked… different. Smaller, somehow. As if the years had shrunk it, diminished its grandeur. He’d been expecting a crushing blow. Instead, a peculiar numbness spread through him. Michael’s gaze swept over the pictures.

He slowly moved through the pictures. The meticulously staged furniture, the generic artwork. It felt impersonal. It felt… wrong. He’d anticipated a flood of emotion, but instead, he felt detached, like an observer of his own life.

He sighed. He felt empty. He reached for another cup of coffee. He’d have to go back to work soon.

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