grief-stricken - Story 57558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly-baked cat treats, the sound of the scratching post being used. Her roommate, Olivia, was making the house a home. The new kitten, a fluffy ball of energy, zipped around her feet. The house felt too full, too loud.

She retreated to her room, the door closing with a soft click. The sudden quiet was a relief, but the quiet had the same effect as the noise; it was still a reminder. The space felt violated, her sanctuary invaded.

She heard Olivia calling her name through the door, asking if she wanted to come see the kitten. She couldn't bring herself to respond. She didn't feel anything anymore.

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