grief-stricken - Story 57344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee and hot dogs hung in the air. Eleanor wandered through the rows of discarded belongings, her eyes scanning the tables with a detached air. The world felt muffled, as if she were viewing it through a thick pane of glass. Then, a flash of familiar brown fur stopped her cold. It was Rupert, her childhood companion.

A chill ran down her spine. All the air seemed to have been sucked from the vicinity. Her hands trembled as she reached out, fingers brushing against the worn fabric. The world seemed to tilt. A single, silent sob escaped her.

She had been trying so hard to keep busy, to keep the memories at bay. But this… this was too much. She stared at Rupert, suddenly remembering everything.

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