grief-stricken - Story 57413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet felt heavy in her trembling hands. The weight wasn't just physical; it felt like a burden pressing down on her shoulders. Inside, she saw the pristine bills, a stark contrast to the grit and grime of the alley. Her son, Leo, had loved this alley; he'd sketched it endlessly in his notebooks. The memory of his infectious laughter now felt like a shard of glass lodged in her heart.

A sob escaped her, and she hugged the wallet tightly. The money could give her time, time to not think about his absence. The thought was tempting. She could pay off the hospital bills, buy herself some peace of mind. She closed her eyes, trying to imagine Leo's face, his bright, dancing eyes.

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