grief-stricken - Story 57408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with memories. He couldn’t bring himself to touch anything, afraid the memories would shatter. His sister, Jessica, was going through the kitchen cupboards, sighing, tossing things out. "We can't keep all this," she stated, her voice sounding far away. He stood by the window, staring at the overgrown garden. His grandmother always had a pot of tea brewing. He felt the phantom taste on his tongue, the warmth spreading through him. He rubbed his chest, unable to find comfort.

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