grief-stricken - Story 57167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The best man's speech drew the tears from Fiona's eyes, even though it wasn't about her. As she watched, she felt a hollow ache. It had been years since their separation, but seeing him—Liam—here, surrounded by happiness, was a blow.

She swirled the wine in her glass, watching the red liquid. She was alone at a table, separated from all the people around her. It all felt like a movie she wasn't cast in.

Her eyes drifted back to Liam, who was laughing heartily. The room seemed to tilt, the cheerful noise becoming a blur. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a heavy cloak of solitude descending upon 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