grief-stricken - Story 57673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah, sitting in the university library, felt a profound sense of disorientation. Dr. Chen, her advisor, the woman who had fostered her passion for history, was leaving. The news had arrived like a physical blow, stealing the air from her lungs.

She closed the heavy tome she was reading, her fingers tracing the faded gold lettering on the cover. A sudden weariness washed over her, making her muscles ache. The silence of the library pressed in on her, amplifying the emptiness she felt.

She imagined Chen, her sharp intellect and warm smile, navigating a new chapter. Sarah felt a peculiar envy, a longing for a future that suddenly felt impossible to reach. The thought of writing her thesis without her guidance was a crushing weight.

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