grief-stricken - Story 57145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph on the shelf, a picture of Professor Davies, smiling, hand on his shoulder, taunted her. She picked it up, her fingers tracing the faded image. It was all a lie, wasn't it? The encouragement, the late-night talks, the promise of a future. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. The apartment, once filled with the echoes of their conversations, now felt cavernous and empty. She sank onto the sofa, the air around her suddenly thin and hard to breathe.

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