grief-stricken - Story 57205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin around her. The familiar roar of the engine, the comforting smell of old leather and cigarettes – all erased. Replaced by an alien emptiness.

She stood frozen on the sidewalk, watching the tow truck disappear down the street. It was as if something vital had been pulled from her, leaving her hollowed out and adrift.

She thought of all the times he'd yelled at her to move the car. Now, she'd give anything for him to be yelling at her again. The thought brought fresh waves of emotion, making her eyes sting.

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