grief-stricken - Story 57190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a physical blow, leaving her bruised and breathless. The secret phone calls, the deception... it all felt like a violation. She moved through the house in a daze, unable to focus, unable to process.

She sat on the porch swing, watching the sunset. The colours, usually beautiful, were now just a reminder of the beauty that had been stolen from her. The world felt muted, lacking its usual vibrancy.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill. She felt cold, both physically and emotionally. The thought of tomorrow, of facing the world, filled her with dread. The pain was all-consuming.

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