grief-stricken - Story 57008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor’s smile felt like a physical assault. My painting, commissioned for a local hospital, was now on his forearm. I stared at the TV screen, the cheerful backdrop mocking the hollowness within me. It felt like a cheapening of my art, of the emotions it contained.

I felt a wave of dizziness wash over me. The studio lights seemed to dim, casting shadows across my room. The man's words about "loving the artwork" stung like a slap. My heart ached, a deep, persistent throb.

It was more than just the artwork. It was a violation, an invasion of the last vestiges of my privacy. I switched off the television, plunging the room into silence, but the image remained seared into my memory.

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