grief-stricken - Story 57546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garden was overgrown. The roses, which Sarah adored, were choked by weeds. The memory of her gentle hands tending to them brought a fresh wave of… a wave he couldn’t name. He'd been avoiding it, the task of cleaning up the garden. He'd avoid most things lately. He found his daughter, Lily’s, tablet on the kitchen table. He’d wanted to ask her about the school play. He found a TikTok account, with videos of Lily dancing, laughing, and acting. He watched, astonished. This wasn't the Lily he saw at home. This girl was alive, vibrant, and happy. It felt like she had been hiding, keeping a secret so close.

He rubbed his forehead, the skin suddenly tingling.

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