grief-stricken - Story 57030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the silence. The world seemed dull, gray, lifeless. Margaret was haunted by the memories of her husband. Everything was a reminder. She went through the motions, but felt nothing.

Her great-nephew, Henry, was visiting. Henry loved to draw, covering every surface with his creations. One day, he presented her with a picture of a creature composed of swirling galaxies, with a gentle smile.

“This is Stargazer,” Henry said proudly. “She wants to share your secrets.” Margaret felt the tears prick her eyes. Stargazer. Her childhood friend, her confidant. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. The past was suddenly so present.

“She does, does she?” Margaret managed to whisper, her voice trembling. Henry nodded, oblivious to the turmoil raging within her. The world felt suddenly very small, yet suffocating.

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