grief-stricken - Story 57617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Standing at the podium, a knot formed in her throat. The carefully chosen outfit felt suffocating, the makeup a mask she could barely bear to wear. She looked at her father, his eyes twinkling with a forced happiness, and felt a fresh wave of despair. His wife, her mother, was gone, and this milestone felt tainted, incomplete.

She remembered her mother's gentle encouragement, her unwavering support. The thought of speaking without her felt like a betrayal. She cleared her throat, trying to compose herself, but the words wouldn't come. Instead, a choked sob escaped, followed by a torrent of tears she couldn't control.

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