grief-stricken - Story 57879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was a prison. The paintings were his children, or so it felt, and now they were on display, stripped of privacy. He had never intended to share them with the world. He felt betrayed.

A group of people were laughing, pointing at one of his pieces. His breath caught in his throat. He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes. He felt a sense of utter isolation.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words would not come. He stood silent, the weight of his emotions crushing him. He turned and walked away, the gallery lights blurring into streaks of color.

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