grief-stricken - Story 57472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest within her. The package – a small, square thing – leaned against the door, soaked and forlorn. It belonged to the woman who used to live here, the woman who’d left behind such bright, clashing colors. She felt a surge of… something. Was it envy? Regret? A knot tightened in her stomach.

She scooped it up, the cardboard offering little resistance to the storm. She didn’t know what was inside. It didn't matter. Everything felt pointless. The world had gone flat, all the vibrancy bleached away.

She brought it to the hallway table, the wood cold against her fingertips. She stood there, unmoving, the water from the box slowly creating a stain.

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