grief-stricken - Story 57648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement came with the cold efficiency of a corporate machine. For Emily, it felt like the floor had opened up beneath her. She felt a sudden, intense chill, and wrapped her arms around herself. This was her life, at Spectra Solutions.

Her co-workers' faces were a mix of shock and disbelief. The laughter and banter that once filled the office were gone, replaced by an unsettling silence. She felt a sense of isolation, a sudden distance from everyone she knew.

She went home and wandered aimlessly, the silence of her apartment even more deafening than usual. Each object, each piece of furniture, held a memory. The walls seemed to close in on her, and the weight of it all was crushing.

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