grief-stricken - Story 57688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chess board, set up on the table, felt like a monument to a past life. James had loved to play, planning out every move with a thoughtful seriousness. She couldn't bring herself to touch the pieces.

Her daughter, Lily, however, had inherited his passion. She would play for hours, her brow furrowed in concentration, studying tactics, and memorizing openings. The girl spoke of the "end game."

She watched Lily play against herself. Her face was a perfect imitation of James, the way her eyes narrowed, the way she tapped her chin in thought. The sight, a vivid reminder, tore at something deep inside. She couldn’t watch anymore.

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