grief-stricken - Story 57555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, stagnant, despite the open windows. Amelia watched, her knuckles white as she gripped the armrests of her chair. Her roommate, Ben, was cradling a small, shivering kitten. "He’s perfect!" he exclaimed, his voice brimming with excitement.

The tiny creature reminded her of something. A presence, a joy, a softness that was forever gone. The sudden appearance of another living thing was an assault on her senses.

Ben turned to her, his smile faltering. "You don't like him?" His brow furrowed. She couldn't speak, just shook her head, the unspoken words trapped in her throat. The world felt muffled, as if she were underwater.

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