grief-stricken - Story 57554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant click-clack of keys from her roommate, David, was grating on her nerves. He'd been working on a new project all day, a project as a distraction. He was oblivious to her, or so she felt. He was getting a pet snake.

She stared at the blank television screen, the room's emptiness a constant, palpable presence. The ache in her jaw was relentless, a physical manifestation of the tightening in her chest. She needed the comfort the house once gave her, now a cavernous shell.

"He's beautiful, isn't he?" David asked from the hallway. "A corn snake. We’ll call him…Kaiser." She didn't respond. The sound of his enthusiasm was a low, persistent thrum of an unwanted melody.

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