grief-stricken - Story 57690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the sewing machine, once a source of comfort, felt impossible to bear. Michael, her late husband, loved to create, designing and sewing clothes with meticulous attention to detail. She had loved the clothes he made for her. Now, she couldn't even bring herself to look at the fabric.

Her daughter, Sarah, had inherited his skills. The girl spent hours at the machine, learning to sew. She crafted her own designs, her small hands moving with a precision that amazed her. The sound of the machine filled the house.

She found Sarah in the workshop, working on a dress. The girl looked up, a smile on her face, and showed her the finished item. The dress was a copy of one of her late husband's designs. The details, the colors, the cut, were all perfect. She had to leave.

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