grief-stricken - Story 57363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More garbage," Maria muttered, her voice raspy. She barely glanced at the envelope as she retrieved it from the mailbox. It was her birthday next week, and the anonymous card felt like a cruel joke. The weight in her stomach was a familiar companion these days. She slumped onto the porch step, the setting sun painting long shadows across the lawn. She tore open the card, the paper ripping easily. The message was bland, meaningless. She let it fall to the ground, a forgotten whisper on the wind.

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