grief-stricken - Story 57206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had loved that car. A vintage pickup truck, meticulously restored, a testament to his dedication and skill. She hadn’t been paying attention. Lost in her own thoughts.

Now it was gone. The space where it had been parked was just a barren expanse of concrete. She felt the tears well up, hot and unwelcome.

Her hand trembled as she touched the spot where the tire had been. It was cold, devoid of the familiar vibration that had always been there.

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