grief-stricken - Story 57355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stairs groaned under her weight as she climbed into the stifling heat of the attic. The dust clung to her clothes, a suffocating embrace. Sorting through the items of strangers felt utterly pointless, another task on a list she could barely bring herself to face. A house full of memories was slowly crushing her.

She unearthed a small wooden box. Inside, she found a child's hand-painted treasure chest filled with smooth, grey stones. She looked at the stones, each one carefully chosen.

She felt a shudder ripple through her. She felt like she was being watched. She slowly closed the box.

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