grief-stricken - Story 57015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner party, meant to celebrate their anniversary, turned into a funeral dirge. He announced his conversion to Judaism, his words precise and carefully chosen. I closed my eyes, trying to make the ringing in my ears stop.

My stomach churned, and a wave of nausea threatened to overwhelm me. The crystal goblets on the table blurred, the candlelight a flickering dance of distorted images. His words echoed in my head, a litany of unfamiliar terms and concepts.

I excused myself, rushing to the bathroom. The cold tiles against my face offered a small measure of relief. Staring at my reflection, I saw a stranger, a woman etched with pain, the color drained from her features.

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