grief-stricken - Story 57243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold pizza sat untouched on the counter, a testament to her lack of appetite. She had been so sure. So certain. That the treatment had worked. Now, the remission, the fleeting joy, was revealed as a cruel trick of fate. The phone rang, a persistent, unwelcome intrusion. She ignored it, letting the machine pick up. Each ring was a tiny hammer blow against the fragile shell of her composure. The photographs on the fridge, filled with smiling faces, seemed to taunt her with their innocent obliviousness.

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