grief-stricken - Story 57557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the new aquarium setup echoed through the apartment. Michael, her roommate, was ecstatic about his new pet fish. “They’re so calming to watch, you know? Perfect after a long day,” he said.

She stared out the window, the city lights blurring through unshed tears. She didn't want calming. She didn't want cheerful. She wanted the relentless, all-consuming pain.

“I’m going out,” she said, her voice flat. The aquarium’s gentle bubbling seemed to amplify the silence in her wake. The new life, in the water, only emphasized the absence in hers.

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