grief-stricken - Story 57349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of cut grass and old furniture. Across the yard sale, I saw him. Arthur. He sat, looking lost and forgotten, among a collection of broken toys. My bear.

I stopped breathing. The world tilted on its axis. A sudden pressure built behind my eyes. I felt a sharp, stabbing pain in my chest. The memories flooded back, overwhelming.

"He's seen better days, hasn't he?" The seller, a man in a stained t-shirt, said. I nodded, unable to speak. I just stood there, staring at Arthur, the weight of the past crushing me.

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