grief-stricken - Story 57980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cold, even with the sun streaming through the windows. The sound of a knock, and there was old Mr. Gable, a gentle man with a kind face. He spoke about planting, about the seasons, about the peace he found in the earth. He gestured towards the overgrown space next door.

His stomach clenched, and a familiar wave of nausea swept over him. The thought of tending the soil, of watching things grow, felt like a cruel reminder of what had been lost.

He was silent for a long moment, the silence broken only by the chirping of birds. He finally nodded, unable to speak. The simple act felt like a monumental effort. He was trapped.

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