grief-stricken - Story 57358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around her feet as she entered the attic, the air thick with the scent of decay. She'd been wandering through a fog since the diagnosis, each day a struggle to find meaning. Sorting through the attic felt like another insurmountable challenge.

She discovered a stack of old books, their covers faded and worn. She ran her fingers across the spines, looking for something that would soothe her.

She pulled out a book of poetry. She opened it to a random page. The words blurred before her eyes, but she read them anyway. She sat down, letting the words fill her head.

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