grief-stricken - Story 57443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty coffee cup on Maya's nightstand was a testament to the sleepless night she'd just endured. She felt a profound ache, a constant pressure behind her eyes. Sunlight sliced through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Her roommate, Chloe, strolled into the room, humming a cheerful tune. Maya flinched as she caught sight of the open journal on her desk. The cover was facedown, but Maya knew the page that was revealed. Chloe’s smile faltered for a second, then reformed. “Morning!” she chirped. Maya couldn't reply.

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