grief-stricken - Story 57288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ring of the landline, a sound she hadn’t heard in weeks, startled her. She answered it without thinking. It was a recorded message: “You have a new friend request on Facebook…” Sarah “The Serpent” Stevens. He couldn't help a small shudder as his eyes met hers.

The house felt cold, even with the fireplace blazing. The fire offered no warmth to his core. He hadn't felt warmth since… The photographs on the mantelpiece, capturing happier times, only amplified the loss. The world felt muted, drained of color.

He walked over to the computer, his movements slow and deliberate. He stared at the friend request. This was a place where she would always feel lost. The pressure in his chest intensified. He closed his eyes, then opened them again, and clicked the delete button.

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