grief-stricken - Story 57657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound journal lay open on the table. Inside, Maya had written a letter to her late sister, filled with memories and regrets. She'd meant to send a picture of the letter to her sister's old phone. In the emotional haze, her fingers fumbled, and the photo went to her sister's husband, Robert.

A wave of dread washed over her. Robert, who had always been a source of comfort to both of them, would likely be okay. Maya felt a pang of guilt, that her rawest feelings would now be made public. She felt the tears well in her eyes. The pain was still too new.

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