grief-stricken - Story 57915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The roots are damaging my patio,” the neighbor said, his voice clipped and impatient. The willow. He knew it was the willow. The one she had always sat beneath, reading her books, a blanket spread beneath her.

He felt a sudden wave of dizziness, the world around him blurring. He gripped the edge of the kitchen counter for support, his knuckles turning white. It was all a mistake, this life, this house, this everything.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop the world from spinning. Instead, he simply nodded, unable to speak, the words caught in his throat like shards of glass. He could only manage a slow, deliberate shake of his head.

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