grief-stricken - Story 57055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt… fragile. Like the slightest touch could shatter it. Everything was a reminder. The empty chair at the dinner table. The quiet telephone. The scent of lavender soap. And now, the cold glint of her grandmother’s ring in the harsh light of the pawn shop.

She clenched her fists, nails digging into her palms. The intricate design felt heavy, like a weight on her chest. The shop owner, a small man with nervous eyes, was waiting. She had to act. She had to.

“I… I’ll take it,” she managed, her voice barely audible above the ringing in her ears. The shopkeeper looked surprised. She had no money, not even close. But she would find a way.

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