grief-stricken - Story 57417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls seemed to mock her as Amelia examined the wallet. Inside, a generous amount of money. Her daughter, Lily, would have loved this market. She used to hold Amelia’s hand and giggle at the fruits. Now, everything felt dull, flavorless.

She gripped the wallet tightly. The money could give her a fresh start, a chance to rebuild. But guilt gnawed at her, a constant reminder of her loss. She opened her mouth to speak, and nothing came out. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken words. She felt utterly alone.

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