grief-stricken - Story 57361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat, a splash of color against the dull gray of the mailbox. Sarah hesitated, her hand hovering over it. Just another reminder. She'd been avoiding the mail, letting it pile up inside, a tangible record of the days that stretched endlessly before her. Slowly, she pulled it out. A cartoon cat with a ridiculously large bow stared back at her. Inside, a generic birthday message. No signature. She crumpled the card, her knuckles white, and tossed it into the trash. The plastic crinkled, a hollow sound in the sudden quiet of the morning.

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