grief-stricken - Story 57556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright, cheerful colors in the room seemed to mock her. Her roommate, Chloe, was bustling around, assembling a birdcage. "A budgie!" she announced, her voice filled with delight. "He'll sing! It'll be so cheerful!"

She sat on the edge of her bed, her shoulders slumped. The silence of the apartment, once a comfort, was now a constant, hollow echo. The world felt grey, devoid of any light. Another life was taking place in a space that once held so much joy.

Chloe finished setting up the cage, then turned towards her. "You okay, Liv?" she asked. The concern in her eyes, the gentle tone of her voice, sliced right through her.

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