grief-stricken - Story 57350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of children laughing filled the air, a sound that grated on her nerves. She had been lost for months, unable to find joy or purpose. She drifted through the yard sale, the colors and sounds washing over her without making a mark. Then, there he was. Charlie, her teddy bear.

Her breath caught in her throat. She felt a sharp, cold ache in her chest. Everything went quiet. Her vision blurred. She felt a profound sense of loss, a pain that consumed her. She struggled to remain upright.

"He's three dollars," the seller said. The words seemed to echo in the vast emptiness inside her. She needed to buy him. She had to.

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