grief-stricken - Story 57357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a forgotten tomb. The air was stale, heavy, a suffocating blanket. She had been avoiding this task, the task of moving on. The thought of sorting through other people's lives felt like picking at a wound.

She found a box filled with old photographs. She pulled them out, one by one. Faces stared back at her, smiling, laughing, alive. Then she saw it.

One photograph showed a young couple embracing in front of a tree. The woman in the picture had her same smile. Her heart clenched, and she choked back a sob. She looked away.

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