grief-stricken - Story 57186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt as if the ground had given way beneath her feet. The calls, the lies, the deceit – it all felt like a physical weight, crushing her. She couldn’t bring herself to go to work. She couldn’t eat. The world seemed to have lost its colour.

The house felt too big, the silence too loud. She wandered from room to room, touching things, trying to find a connection to the life she thought she had. Her reflection in the mirror seemed distant, unrecognizable.

She sat on the sofa, clutching a pillow. The tears flowed freely, silent sobs that shook her body. The thought of facing tomorrow was unbearable.

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