grief-stricken - Story 57011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Sunday roast, usually a cacophony of laughter and family squabbles, felt suffocating. Amelia stared at the perfectly browned chicken, its crisp skin mocking her. Her brother, Thomas, had just declared his intention to become a Buddhist.

The announcement had come after grace, hanging in the air like a discordant note. Her mother had dabbed at her eyes, a single tear tracing a path through her expertly applied makeup. Amelia felt a tightening in her chest, a pressure that made it difficult to breathe.

She pushed her plate away, the food suddenly unappetizing. The clinking of forks and the murmured conversations seemed distant, muffled by a sudden, inexplicable silence within her own head. Each bite, each shared glance, a reminder of the chasm that was opening between them.

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