grief-stricken - Story 57208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning air tasted like ashes. She didn't feel the sunlight on her skin. She had been staring out the window, watching the vacant spot where the car usually was.

The phone rang, jolting her. "Your car has been towed," the automated voice stated. She hung up, not needing the details, the why, or the when.

She sank back against the wall, her body heavy, her spirit leaden. It was a tangible loss, a physical manifestation of the emptiness that had taken root within her. She was adrift, lost at sea.

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