grief-stricken - Story 57990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the notice, the words swimming before his eyes. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t process the information. The loss, the emptiness, was already a part of his everyday existence. Now, this.

He walked into his bedroom and stood in front of the window, staring out at the city. The lights were a blur, the noises muted. His apartment had been a refuge. He knew every crack in the walls, every squeak of the floorboards. The thought of leaving filled him with a profound sense of dread.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture conveying a deeper emotion than words could express. The world had gone very, very wrong.

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