grief-stricken - Story 57972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had stopped shaving, the stubble a scratchy reminder of everything lost. The doorbell chimed, a sound that used to bring him joy, now only felt like an unwelcome disruption. It was Mr. Peterson, wanting to talk about some gardening project he was planning.

“I was thinking, your yard is just so…underutilized,” Mr. Peterson began, gesturing expansively at the overgrown weeds. David’s eyes followed the motion, and they burned.

He felt the familiar pressure building behind his eyes. He didn’t want to tend the lawn; he couldn’t face the reminders of games played there, of laughter and light. "Sure," he croaked, pushing past the pain. "Do what you want."

Mr. Peterson beamed. "Wonderful! I'll get started right away then." David retreated, the words “right away” echoing in the silence of the house.

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