grief-stricken - Story 57084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You alright there, Margaret?" The cheerful voice of Mrs. Gable, perched on her side of the new fence, shattered the silence. Margaret jumped, her hand flying to her chest. She hadn't realized she was staring. "Just a bit tired," she murmured, avoiding the woman's concerned gaze. The sunlight felt too harsh.

She couldn’t quite grasp it. It was like living in a film on mute.

The air around her was stagnant.

She excused herself and went back inside, the scent of fresh-cut wood still clinging to her clothes.

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