grief-stricken - Story 57559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The incessant chirping of crickets filled the apartment. Her roommate, Sam, was overjoyed, showing off his new pet reptiles. “They are so beautiful, so calming," he said.

She sat on the couch, the same spot where they used to sit. The house used to be full of happy noise. It felt like her heart was a stone. Sam didn’t understand the echoes of the past, the memories that haunted every corner.

He sat down beside her, oblivious. "Wanna hold one?" He smiled, holding out his hand. She shook her head, unable to speak. The offer of companionship, now, felt like another cruel jest.

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