grief-stricken - Story 57257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The recipe, her grandmother's recipe, the one she had perfected over years of trials and failures, was now being sold as the creation of a celebrity chef. The cookbook, a cherished family heirloom, felt like a betrayal.

She stood in her kitchen, surrounded by the familiar scents of baking, but found the smell repulsive. The ingredients, once comforting, now felt like accusations. She couldn’t bring herself to bake, to even stir the batter.

She closed her eyes, picturing her grandmother's smile, the warmth of her kitchen. The loss of her grandmother seemed to blend with this new loss, creating a double wound. A dull ache radiated from her heart, a constant reminder of what had been taken.

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