grief-stricken - Story 57789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing had popped up while he was idly scrolling. John felt a jolt of shock, then a slow, insidious ache that spread through his body. He’d tried to put it behind him, to move on. Now this, a sudden, unwelcome reminder.

He felt the heat rising in his face. The photos showed a completely transformed interior. The rooms seemed cold, sterile, unrecognizable. He sat there, his mouth a thin, taut line.

He stood up, unable to breathe properly. He needed to get away from this. He needed to be alone. He walked to the door, and then turned back. He felt a fresh wave of something, the first flicker 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