grief-stricken - Story 57414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello?" The voice on the other end of the phone was hesitant. The old woman's hand, holding the phone, was shaking. She'd found the wallet beside the bus stop, the leather worn like an old friend. Inside, a fortune. Her husband, Thomas, had always said she was too soft-hearted.

The money could pay for the repairs she desperately needed on her house. It could ease the pain, the emptiness that threatened to swallow her whole. Thomas’s memory filled her mind, a comforting warmth against the chill of the evening. She clutched the wallet tighter, a knot forming in her stomach. “I found something,” she whispered into the phone, the words feeling heavy on her tongue.

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