grief-stricken - Story 57295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored decorations, still clinging to the walls of the community hall, mocked her. Each banner, each streamer, each festoon of paper seemed to jeer at her, a constant reminder of the joy that would not be. Her appetite had vanished, and she pushed the untouched plate of food away, the scent of the catered buffet making her stomach turn. A coldness spread through her limbs. She felt disconnected, as if she were floating, observing the scene from a great distance. She felt the weight of the disappointment pressing down on her.

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