grief-stricken - Story 57916 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the woman, her face a blur. The sycamore, she wanted to take down the sycamore. It had been their favorite, its mottled bark, the rustling leaves in autumn. Her hand had traced that bark a thousand times.

A wave of nausea hit him. He blinked, fighting to focus. The world seemed muted, colors dull. Her laughter, once so clear, echoed faintly in his memory, a cruel reminder of what he had lost. He felt so utterly, overwhelmingly, alone.

He couldn’t speak, couldn’t move. He simply stood there, a statue carved from sorrow, as she repeated her offer, oblivious to the storm raging inside him. The world seemed to shrink around him.

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