grief-stricken - Story 57088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight made her eyes water. She could barely see past the newly erected barrier. He, with his happy-go-lucky attitude, said it was a good thing. She could not find it in herself to agree. The air was heavy, the silence oppressive.

She had to get out, but the thought of facing the world, even her small corner of it, was unbearable. Her chest felt constricted, as if an invisible hand was squeezing the breath from her lungs. She looked for the familiar face of her son, and realized he was no longer there.

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