grief-stricken - Story 57155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, propped on her desk, stared back at her. The two of them, grinning broadly, holding up their diplomas. The job at the art gallery, the curator position, was the next step. Both her and Chloe. Now, she had it. Chloe didn’t.

She swiveled in her chair, the leather creaking. The pristine white walls of the gallery seemed to mock her. She felt like a fraud, undeserving of the opportunity. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, as though she were wading through something viscous.

A text from Chloe. "Congratulations! I'm truly happy for you." The words felt like sandpaper against her skin. She closed her eyes, fighting the wave of nausea that threatened to overwhelm her. She wondered if Chloe hated her.

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