grief-stricken - Story 57293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had been short, the words blunt. No party. Done. Over. Amelia sat on the stoop, the porch light casting long shadows across the empty street. Her hands, usually restless, lay still in her lap, fingers intertwined. The air felt suddenly thin, as if she was struggling to breathe. She’d wanted this so badly. The thought of all the effort, the planning, the anticipation, now rendered useless, left a bitter taste in her mouth. She clenched her jaw.

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