grief-stricken - Story 57373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, once so comforting, now choked Amelia. The new house, a charming cottage by the sea, was meant to be a fresh start. Instead, it was just another empty space, another monument to the life that had been stolen from her. The echoing silence was her daily penance.

She’d been attempting to wallpaper the dining room, a task she had always found therapeutic. A section of the wall felt different, subtly hollow. Pressing harder, she discovered a small indentation.

A panel slid away, revealing a hidden room. Inside, a single, antique music box sat on a small shelf. As she gently wound the key, a haunting melody filled the air, a familiar tune that sent a shiver down her spine.

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