grief-stricken - Story 57019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her son, the apple of her eye, was now a Jehovah's Witness. The announcement was made with such conviction, such unwavering faith. I felt a chill creep up my spine.

Her hands, usually busy knitting or tending to her garden, now sat uselessly in her lap. The television screen reflected her blank expression, a mirror to the emptiness she felt. The world around her seemed to fade into a blur.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. The image in the mirror was a stranger, the eyes filled with a desolation she couldn't comprehend.

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