grief-stricken - Story 57984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Mark, reading the notice in the lobby, felt a jolt that ran up his spine. He immediately retreated back to his apartment and stood in the middle of his living room, unable to move. A buzzing sound filled his ears.

He stared at the blank television screen, the room's emptiness echoing the hollowness inside him. This apartment, crammed with the remnants of his life with her, was his haven. Each object held a memory, a story, a connection to a time when his world had felt complete. The thought of selling, of sorting through their shared belongings, felt like a betrayal.

His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He couldn't face it. Not yet.

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