grief-stricken - Story 57403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow. Empty. Sarah dragged her feet through the rooms, the echoes of her grandmother's laughter now replaced by the whisper of the wind through the loose window panes. She hadn't eaten all day. Or slept. Every task felt monumental. She opened the silverware drawer, finding the spoons she used to stir sugar into her tea. The metallic gleam of the utensils seemed to taunt her. She sank down to the kitchen floor, legs splayed, staring at the ceiling, feeling an emptiness that seemed to swallow her whole.

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