grief-stricken - Story 57083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly cut wood assaulted her senses. It was a smell she associated with him, with building forts in the backyard, with scraped knees and popsicle-stained smiles. The fence. Why now? Why this constant intrusion into the quiet devastation that had become her life?

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the rhythmic thud. It was a physical thing, a pressure on her chest, a squeezing of her lungs. Her fingers ached with a sudden, overwhelming urge to claw at something.

It was almost done.

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