grief-stricken - Story 57377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the new house felt alien, intrusive. They mocked her. Each brightly lit room felt like an open wound, and the laughter of the neighbors was a cruel reminder of what she had lost. She was barely eating, barely sleeping. The days blurred into a monotonous cycle of emptiness.

She had been trying to fix a leaky faucet in the downstairs bathroom, something he always did. While reaching for a tool, her hand brushed against the wall. A hidden panel swung open with a slight creak.

Inside, a small room filled with shelves. On one of the shelves, a collection of his favourite books. She reached out and touched the spine of a well-worn copy of “The Odyssey,” and a tear slipped down her cheek.

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