grief-stricken - Story 57023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was muted. Everything tasted bland. Amelia felt the cold seep into her bones, despite the sunshine streaming through the window. The house, once full of laughter, now echoed with emptiness. Her wife’s clothes were still in the closet, the scent of her perfume lingering in the air.

Her nephew, Finn, had started drawing lately, filling the house with vibrant splashes of color. One day, he presented her with a drawing of a creature made of stars, with a gentle face and outstretched arms.

“This is Stardust,” Finn announced. “She says she wants to play.” Amelia blinked back the sudden, hot tears stinging her eyes. Stardust… her childhood imaginary friend. The memories, so carefully packed away, resurfaced with a fierce intensity. She could almost feel the presence, the comfort, the love.

"She... she seems very nice," Amelia said, her voice shaking slightly.

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