grief-stricken - Story 57291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The balloons, deflated and lying forlorn on the living room floor, were the first clue. Sarah had pictured them, vibrant and bursting with air, a cheerful welcome to her. Now, they were just sad, limp reminders of a happiness she wouldn’t get to experience. Her shoulders slumped. The silence in the house was heavy, punctuated only by the drip of a leaky faucet in the kitchen. She reached out, her fingers brushing against the cold, smooth plastic of a deflated balloon, and a single tear traced a path down her cheek.

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