grief-stricken - Story 57709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The endless phone calls, the incessant emails, the pressure to meet deadlines - it all felt overwhelming to Olivia. Every day was a fight. She just wanted it to end.

"Olivia, have you ever been to Camp Starlight?" asked her co-worker, Mark. "I went there when I was a kid. My sister did too."

Olivia’s body stilled. The words hung in the air, a tangible weight. Starlight. The name was a key, unlocking a Pandora’s Box of memories she had worked hard to keep locked away. The stars, the campfires, *his* laughter. She pressed her lips together, her chest tightening. The world around her seemed to blur. She couldn't breathe.

"Yes," she finally said, her voice tight. She needed to escape, to be alone with her thoughts.

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