grief-stricken - Story 57177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant city, once a source of excitement, now felt like a prison. The news of Leo's deception had cast a long shadow over her life. He wasn’t a renowned surgeon, as he had claimed. He worked at the local fast food joint. The realization made her stomach turn. She had looked up to him for years, admiring his supposed dedication and skill.

She found herself wandering aimlessly through the park, each tree and building a reminder of her shattered illusions. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a physical manifestation of her pain. Every happy memory now replayed in her mind, tainted by the bitter truth. The joy she had felt was gone. In its place, a yawning emptiness.

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