grief-stricken - Story 57157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cavernous. The silence was deafening. The interior design job at the prestigious firm, a shared ambition with Leo, was now hers. It was difficult to feel joy. She felt hollow.

She wandered through the rooms, touching the smooth surfaces of the furniture. Each object reminded her of Leo, of their shared aesthetic, their dreams of creating beautiful spaces. She felt the heavy weight of her guilt.

She saw the unopened bottle of champagne on the counter. The celebratory dinner, planned for weeks, seemed impossible now. Her phone vibrated. A brief message from Leo. "Happy for you. Let's catch up soon." She felt a fresh pang.

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