grief-stricken - Story 57464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was filled with the pungent smell of old leather and forgotten things. Clara stood frozen before the display case, her fingers tracing the outline of her grandfather's pocket watch. Its gold casing seemed to mock her, gleam with a prosperity she didn't possess.

Her lips were pressed into a thin, tight line. The shopkeeper, a man with a walrus mustache and shrewd eyes, kept clearing his throat, waiting. The price tag on the watch was like a verdict.

She looked at her hands, empty and trembling. The silence in the shop was a heavy blanket, suffocating 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