grief-stricken - Story 57560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant braying of a donkey from her roommate’s new home was too much. The donkey brayed at the worst times. The world was too loud, too bright, too present. The presence of the animal in the house was a reminder.

She wrapped her arms around herself, her hands gripping her arms. The weight was too much to bear. She missed the comfort the house once gave her, now a hollow reminder.

"He misses you, you know," her roommate said. She shook her head. They did not understand the emptiness that was left behind.

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