grief-stricken - Story 57009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found the woman, a complete stranger, in a crowded cafe. My painting, dedicated to my sister, was now decorating her thigh. I felt a coldness wash over me, a chilling reminder of the absence.

My chest clenched, and it was hard to breathe. Each stroke of the tattoo, a testament to her life, now trivialized. I felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness, a stark realization of how little control I had over anything.

I wanted to speak, to demand an explanation, but the words wouldn't come. I simply stood there, paralyzed, watching her sip her coffee, completely unaware of the turmoil she had caused.

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