grief-stricken - Story 57439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The magazine cover stared back at her. "Chef Isabelle's Innovative Ice Cream Creations." The photo was familiar. The flavors were not. The magazine had featured her mother's famous ice cream. Her mother always made it during summer.

The article detailed the chef’s “unique” process, her “creative” flavor combinations. It described the ice cream. But it did not mention the time she had spent with her mother, learning the secrets to each flavour.

She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach churning. The recipe, the way her mother had folded the ingredients, was all gone. It felt like another robbery. Everything was taken.

She tossed the magazine in the trash. The image of the ice cream stayed with her, cold and accusing. She went to the window, staring out at the world. She missed her mother.

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