grief-stricken - Story 57925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words replayed in Leo’s head, a constant, echoing loop. “No known cure.” He stared at the chipped paint of the waiting room, the vibrant colors assaulting his senses. He felt a hand on his shoulder.

He looked up. A woman with weary eyes and a gentle smile stood before him. She carried a well-worn book, its title barely visible.

"They said you have it too," she said, her voice soft. "Chromatic Asynchrony?"

Leo nodded, his throat suddenly tight.

“I’m Sarah,” she continued, offering a smile, a fleeting moment of relief that he hadn’t experienced in weeks. “It’s rough, isn't it?”

He managed a weak smile in response. Perhaps, he thought, they could navigate this together.

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