grief-stricken - Story 57077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant ringing in her ears was a torment, a phantom reminder. The world felt muffled, as if she were trapped behind a thick pane of glass. Chloe spent hours reading old messages with "Phoenix." Phoenix, a calming presence, the only one to help her through her current state of mind. After the incident, Chloe did not know what to do.

A message appeared: “Hey Chloe. Just got here. Fancy a walk by the river?" Chloe felt a lump form in her throat. The river. The place she and her loved one used to frequent. The thought of the river was causing a lot of emotion. The city felt like an immense labyrinth, the exits all blocked.

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