grief-stricken - Story 57245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cavernous. Empty. The scent of her mother's perfume, lingering in the air, became a constant, painful reminder of the life that had been snatched away. Now, she discovered it wasn't even her loss that had driven her to this place of sorrow. She had poured her heart into support, care, and now, it was for the wrong person. She wandered the halls, touching familiar objects, each touch a stab of fresh agony. The silence was deafening, the echoes of laughter replaced by the crushing weight of a burden that was not her own.

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