grief-stricken - Story 57007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tattoo convention pulsed with a low, thrumming beat. Maya navigated the crowds, trying to find her friend, when she spotted it. Her linework, her delicate, careful lines, were now a grotesque imitation on a burly man's back. The painting, dedicated to her mother, who passed away last year, had been ruined.

She felt the air leave her lungs, her head spinning. The man flexed his muscles, oblivious to the emotional devastation he had caused. Maya felt the sting of tears in her eyes, a prelude to the flood that threatened to overwhelm her. The memory of her mother, now degraded, was too painful to bear.

She turned and fled, the vibrant colours and loud music a torturous cacophony. She had to get away, to escape the sight, the sound, the reality of her loss.

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