grief-stricken - Story 57098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the house was thick with unspoken words. Amelia sat at the kitchen table, picking at her cereal. Her mother bustled around her, offering more toast, refilling her coffee cup. Amelia couldn't bring herself to respond. The world felt muted, and the flavors in the food were bland.

She stared out the window, watching the rain fall. It mirrored the feelings inside her, a constant, gentle weeping. She missed the feeling of belonging, the sense of security that had been ripped away from her life.

She blinked back the tears that threatened to spill over. Her mother placed a hand on her arm, a gesture of comfort. Amelia flinched, pulling away slightly. She just wanted to be alone with her pain.

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