grief-stricken - Story 57359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a repository of forgotten things, a testament to the passage of time. She'd been in a haze since the funeral. The house, once filled with laughter, now echoed with emptiness. She had to clear out the attic, but the task felt impossible.

She found a child's drawing taped to a piece of cardboard. It was a crude depiction of a house with a smiling sun in the corner. Her eyes filled with tears, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

She hadn't been this sad in years. She couldn't breathe. She just wanted to go home.

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