grief-stricken - Story 57378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The expansive garden offered no solace, the meticulously manicured lawn a grim parody of the beautiful life that had been snatched away. He found himself increasingly isolated, his words lost in the vastness of the house. The world felt muted, as if seen through a thick pane of glass.

He was examining the fireplace in the living room, trying to understand why it wasn’t drawing properly. He pressed against the bricks, feeling the rough texture. One brick felt loose.

Pulling it free, he discovered a small opening. Inside the opening, a key. The key felt familiar, and he knew instantly where it belonged.

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