grief-stricken - Story 57790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent's prose, "Ideally located," seemed cruel. The pictures, a slick presentation of a life he no longer lived, felt unreal. He was hit with a powerful sense of loss. He clicked through the slideshow, each image a painful jab.

He felt his throat constrict, making it difficult to swallow. The walls of his apartment seemed to close in. The silence was deafening. He couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly adrift.

He closed the browser, then slowly opened it again. He needed to see it again. He felt a deep, profound sadness.

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