grief-stricken - Story 57530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight seemed to mock her. Emily sat on the park bench, the offending article crumpled in her hand. The author whose words had saved her during her darkest times, was a liar. She felt a profound sense of weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion that went beyond physical. She looked at the small, wilting flower she’d picked that morning, its petals now falling, mirroring the disintegration of her faith. The world, once painted in vibrant hues, now appeared in shades of grey.

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