grief-stricken - Story 57199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but for Susan, it only amplified the emptiness. Her daughter, Chloe, had just started at a new school, and Susan was struggling. The thought of Chloe being in the same classes, with the same teachers, as she once was… it was too much.

During the school orientation, the principal mentioned that Chloe would have Mrs. Bell for science. Susan’s breath hitched in her throat. *Mrs. Bell*. Susan had loved Mrs. Bell. The principal was still talking, but the words faded away. Susan felt a wave of dizziness, and she had to sit down. She stared blankly at the cookies, unable to taste them, her mind consumed by the past, by the things she 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