grief-stricken - Story 57908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with it. With the realization. I tried to go on a walk, but my legs wouldn’t carry me far. The streets seemed to mock me with their vibrancy, with the easy laughter of people I didn't know. Each step felt labored, each breath a struggle. I turned back, seeking the quiet solitude of my apartment. The silence, however, only amplified the emptiness inside me. The walls of my living room closed in, each object a painful reminder of a life interrupted. I went to the window to watch the rain fall and just stood there, unmoving, for what felt like hours.

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