grief-stricken - Story 57640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, even with the presence of her two children. Sarah, still reeling from her mother's death, reached for the last unopened box. Inside, she found a letter, addressed to her. It was written by her mother, years ago.

She felt her breath catch in her throat as she opened it. The words spoke of hopes and dreams for Sarah’s future, of a love that transcended time. The room spun. The words were a knife, carving out a fresh wound.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself. Her grief was a physical force, tightening her chest. The letter felt heavy in her hand, the weight of her mother’s love, and the unbearable absence. She couldn't speak, just a quiet whimper, lost amidst the silence.

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