grief-stricken - Story 57949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, painting the sky in hues of orange and purple, a beauty that seemed to amplify the darkness within. Alex stood in the doorway, staring at the book on the table. Written by his husband, a story about their life together. A life that was now… over.

He felt the familiar thud in his chest, a heavy weight that made it difficult to breathe. The words seemed to mock him, highlighting the joy that had been extinguished. He had to sit. The world was tilting.

Tears streamed down his face, unbidden and unstoppable. He was adrift in a sea of sorrow, unable to find any solid ground.

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