grief-stricken - Story 57882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Good morning, Mr. Henderson!" Liam tried to force a smile, but the words felt tight in his throat. His neighbor, Mr. Dubois, waved back, his tailored suit immaculate. Liam stared at the sleek, black SUV, the kind that cost more than his entire life savings. The sight made his hands clench. He’d spent the last year scrambling to make ends meet, ever since losing his wife, Clara.

The apartment felt cavernous without her laughter. The silence was deafening. He couldn't shake the feeling of emptiness that followed him everywhere.

He recalled Clara's dreams, their shared plans for a simple, comfortable life. The luxury of the Dubois's seemed like another planet. The contrast was a painful reminder of everything he'd lost, everything that felt impossible to achieve 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