grief-stricken - Story 57885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another charity gala, I presume?" Daniel heard his voice sound flat, even to his own ears. He watched Ms. Peterson, his neighbor, emerge from her house, resplendent in a gown that must have cost a small fortune. He hadn't bothered to shave in days. His wife, Emily, would have called him out on that. But now, it didn't seem to matter.

A deep ache settled in his bones, a constant reminder of Emily's absence.

He hadn't been able to touch her art studio since the accident. It was a perfect encapsulation of her life, and he was incapable of facing it. The knowledge of Ms. Peterson's wealth, her opulent lifestyle, was a jarring contrast to his own reality. He had been left with nothing but shadows and memories.

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