grief-stricken - Story 57441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ramen noodles sat congealing in the bowl on the desk, untouched. Sarah stared out the rain-streaked window, the city lights blurring into halos. Her hands, balled into fists, trembled slightly. A crumpled piece of paper, a receipt from the florist, lay beside the bowl. She'd bought a single sunflower. Just one. Then she saw the journal, open on her bed, the binding broken. A coldness settled in her stomach, heavier than the rain outside. She knew, with a certainty that stole her breath, that she couldn't face him right now.

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