grief-stricken - Story 57203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup slipped from her grasp, shattering on the driveway. She didn’t even flinch. The shards glittered in the harsh sunlight, mirroring the fragments of her own existence.

Her gaze fixed on the empty space. It was a physical manifestation of her loss, a gaping hole where comfort and familiarity had once resided. The red of the tow truck's logo mocked her.

She had to get it back, had to retrieve the memories, the scent of his cologne still lingering on the seats. She reached for her phone, dialing the number she'd memorized. "Hello?" she rasped.

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