grief-stricken - Story 57907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, his sanctuary, felt different today. It was empty. The usual symphony of rustling pages and hushed whispers was gone. David wandered through the aisles, running his hand along the spines of the books, each a tangible memory of his time at the university. He pulled a worn copy of his favorite novel from the shelf and sat down, opening it at random. The words swam before his eyes, blurring together. He closed the book, the leather cold against his fingertips. His eyes stung, his chest ached with a heavy, unspoken sadness.

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