grief-stricken - Story 57231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Amelia. She sat hunched on her couch, the laptop's glow reflecting in her tear-filled eyes. How could someone do this? Expose her raw, vulnerable teenage self to the world. She hugged the worn, floral-printed pillow to her chest, the scent of lavender and something vaguely floral clinging to the fabric. Her knuckles were white from clenching. It felt like her insides were twisted into knots, each comment, each shared memory, a fresh stab. Her breath hitched, shallow and ragged.

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