grief-stricken - Story 57075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening. The ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall was the only sound, a constant reminder of time’s relentless march. Emily felt like a ghost, wandering through the rooms, a hollow shell of her former self. The online forum, where she connected with "Nova," was her only solace. Nova knew everything; understood everything.

"Hey, Emily," a message read. "Heard you've been a bit quiet lately. I'm actually doing a conference in your area this week. Maybe we could meet?" Emily stared at the screen, her vision blurring. She hadn’t left the house in weeks. Going outside to meet someone was impossible.

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