grief-stricken - Story 57588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was quiet, a low hum of activity. She was chaperoning her daughter's school play. When the curtain rose, the opening chords hit her like a punch. Her song. Reimagined for the children. Played on kazoos and recorders. The lyrics rewritten.

She bit her lip, fighting back tears. Her daughter, oblivious, stood on stage singing with the others. A lump formed in her throat. She saw her daughter's face, happy and carefree. The melody, once a source of her solace, was now diluted, sanitized. She gripped her hands, her heart aching. The joy of the performance was bittersweet, layered with something impossible to name.

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