grief-stricken - Story 57168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of roses and lilies filled the air. Ethan found it cloying. He spotted her on the terrace, bathed in the soft glow of the setting sun. Her silhouette, even from a distance, was instantly recognizable. He felt a tightening in his throat.

He had avoided her all night, but now, he couldn't seem to stop himself from moving towards her. He took a few deep breaths, trying to steady his nerves. He felt a phantom warmth on his skin, a ghost of her touch.

The distance between them closed. He knew what he was feeling, the ache, the emptiness, and the memories it stirred. It was all a painful reminder of what he had lost.

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