grief-stricken - Story 57419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she found the wallet, a chill that had nothing to do with the evening air. The money inside was enough to change her life. Her husband, John, had taken care of everything. Now, she was adrift, lost in the sea of her grief.

She clutched the wallet, the leather smooth against her trembling fingers. She could buy anything she wanted, a new house, a trip around the world. But the thought brought no joy. All she wanted was to hear John's voice, to feel his hand in hers. She felt frozen, unable to decide, the weight of her sadness nearly crushing her.

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