grief-stricken - Story 57848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a slow, building crescendo of vibrations, then a full-blown assault of bass music. The anger in his chest was a living thing and he knew what was coming. Then the pounding started. It was Mr. Johnson, who stormed in and started shouting. “The racket, Martin! My god, it's deafening!"

Martin stood frozen, staring at the floorboards. "I…I don't even have a stereo, Mr. Johnson," he finally said, his voice flat. He looked around. The house was a tomb, silent except for the memories that vibrated within his bones.

Mr. Johnson grumbled under his breath and left the house, slamming the door behind him. The sound of the music seemed to fade after a moment, and Martin was left in the quiet, and in the dark.

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