grief-stricken - Story 57527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes. Clara had adored Evelyn Hayes' art for years, finding solace and beauty in her evocative paintings. Now, the allegations of copied work hung heavy in the air, casting a shadow over everything. She felt a profound numbness, a coldness that seemed to seep into her very bones. She'd travelled across the country to see this exhibit, the culmination of years of admiration. Now, standing among the paintings, she felt nothing but an overwhelming sense of emptiness.

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