grief-stricken - Story 57405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is yours,” Leo’s sister, Clara, stated, holding out a dusty box. He stared at it, the weight of it suddenly unbearable. Inside, he knew, were trinkets, letters, the remnants of a life. His grandmother’s life. He felt a wave of nausea. He took the box, his hands trembling. He barely registered Clara's words, the instructions about the will. He retreated to the back porch, collapsing on the old swing, the rhythm of its creaking a mournful song. The sunlight seemed too bright, the world too loud.

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