grief-stricken - Story 57888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Lovely day, isn't it?" Robert didn't even turn to greet his neighbor, Mrs. Ellis. She was preparing to leave in a vintage convertible. The words felt flat, empty. His son, Leo, had been gone for a year. The loss had hollowed him out. He felt like a walking shell.

The world seemed to move on around him. The birds kept singing. The sun still rose.

He watched Mrs. Ellis with a sense of detachment, noticing the designer handbag, the perfectly coiffed hair. He hadn’t felt the urge to do anything since the funeral. The simple act of brushing his teeth felt monumental. The thought of her effortless wealth, her carefree existence, felt like a deliberate taunt.

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