grief-stricken - Story 57384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The voicemail played again and again. “Hey, it’s David. Just wanted to say I’ll call you later.” The cheerful tone felt like a deliberate act of cruelty. Across the room, in the sterile waiting area of a lawyer’s office, sat another woman, her face ashen, clutching her own phone.

They had both come to the office because David, their David, had vanished. The lawyer explained the situation – a double life, a web of lies. She felt like a fool, her carefully constructed world crumbling around her.

The other woman, whose name was Claire, was silent, her eyes fixed on a distant point. She didn’t cry, didn’t scream. She simply sat there, utterly still, the air around her thick with unspoken pain. The lawyer's words, the revelation, had left her numb.

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