grief-stricken - Story 57286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Seriously?” Maya whispered, staring at the screen. A friend request from Brenda “Bully” Bartlett. He hadn't thought about Brenda in years. Not really. Now, here she was. The request felt like a physical blow. The apartment was a disaster. Piles of laundry, unwashed dishes, and unopened mail.

She hadn't been to work in days. The world felt muffled, distant, and everything seemed to shimmer slightly at the edges. She felt the sharp sting of tears welling in her eyes, threatening to spill over. Her gaze drifted to the photograph on the wall – a picture of her and Alex, taken just before everything had changed. The colors of the photo seemed to mock her.

A hollow, echoing emptiness had taken root inside her. She felt drained, exhausted, hollowed out. Deleting the request seemed like too much effort. She closed her eyes.

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