grief-stricken - Story 57463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed too bright in the kitchen, washing out the colors, making everything feel brittle. Sarah stared at the silver tea set, its delicate handles reflecting the glare. Her mother used to pour tea from that very pot, her hand steady, her smile warm.

"It’s just… sentimental, you know?" Her brother mumbled, avoiding her gaze as he stirred his coffee. He didn't understand the depth of her feelings, how the mere sight of it conjured a wave of memories.

She closed her eyes, the familiar scent of Earl Grey momentarily filling her nostrils, then opened them again, the scent gone, replaced by the hollow ache in her chest.

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