grief-stricken - Story 57859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it in a dusty box under the bed: his sister’s list. “Swim with dolphins.” The paper was faded, the handwriting uneven, as if she wrote it whilst laughing. Michael’s chest ached. It had been years since he had seen that handwriting.

The apartment echoed with silence. He closed his eyes, remembering the last time he saw her. He opened his eyes, a strange resolve hardening his face. He felt the familiar weight of emptiness. He would do it. He would swim with the dolphins.

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