grief-stricken - Story 57071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain hammered against the window, mimicking the dull ache behind Amelia's eyes. It had been six months. Six months since the phone call, the hospital, the silence. She scrolled through their chat history, the last message a cheerful "See ya later!" from Liam, her online confidante. Now, "later" felt like an eternity. A notification popped up: Liam was online. Her breath hitched.

She tentatively typed, “Hey.” Seconds stretched into an agonizing minute. Then, “Hey, Amelia! Long time no speak. You okay?” Her fingers trembled as she typed back, “Yeah. Just… been a bit rough.” Liam’s reply: “I’m actually in town. Any chance you wanna grab a coffee?” Her stomach lurched. The city suddenly felt too small, the air too thin to breathe.

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