grief-stricken - Story 57823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cedar filled the small workshop. Elias, wood shavings clinging to his worn jeans, carved a life-sized wooden bird. A mourning dove, its wings slightly drooping. He hadn't spoken more than a handful of words in weeks. The quiet of the workshop offered him some semblance of peace, a sanctuary against the incessant emptiness.

A phone call shattered the silence. The museum. They wanted to know about his proposal. It had to do with a sculpture competition. They mentioned another artist, who also proposed a bird. He went to the gallery, and the other person had crafted a mourning dove. His breath hitched in his throat. His entire body felt leaden.

He observed the other piece, and found it was perfect. He walked away, defeated, the wind whipping at his face. The loss. Everything he’d tried to share felt meaningless now.

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