grief-stricken - Story 57389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding invitations. They were still on the kitchen counter, a cruel reminder of the future he had promised. Each delicate script felt like a sharp jab to her soul. She had imagined the day, the dress, the happiness.

A knock. She hesitated. He wasn’t coming back. A woman, elegant and poised, stood outside, holding a crumpled invitation. The same invitation. Her voice, when she spoke, was barely a whisper. “He… he was supposed to marry me.”

She felt the air leave her lungs, her breath catching in her throat. The carefully constructed world she had built, shattered to pieces. The devastation was a cold, hard knot in her stomach, a constant reminder of the loss.

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