grief-stricken - Story 57948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the final page, his jaw clenched, his eyes stinging. The novel, penned by his wife, was a love letter… and an indictment. A confession of past actions. He felt a profound sense of loss, a bottomless pit opening inside him.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. He felt a surge of nausea, followed by a wave of dizziness. He stumbled to the kitchen, seeking air, but the feeling lingered.

He leaned against the counter, the cold surface offering little solace. He was utterly, completely undone.

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