grief-stricken - Story 57073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was muted, colors faded. Everything felt like a performance. Sarah mechanically went through the motions of her day, barely registering the sun on her face or the food she ate. Her online friend, "Echo," had been her rock after the accident, a constant presence, a virtual shoulder to cry on.

Her phone buzzed. “Hey, Sarah. Guess what? I’m in your neck of the woods! Fancy meeting up?” Sarah's fingers hovered over the keyboard. She couldn't. Not yet. Not when the echo of his laughter, the memory of his touch, still haunted her every waking moment. The city, usually bustling and alive, now felt like a prison.

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