grief-stricken - Story 57713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Eviction?" Maria’s voice cracked, a small, wounded sound. The man across the table, the landlord, just shrugged. The rent was overdue. She knew that. But how could she explain? How could she explain the… the void?

She clutched her worn purse, her knuckles white. The weight of the world pressed down on her shoulders. Her fingers traced the outline of a faded photograph inside, a picture of her son. The apartment was his; she'd wanted it to be his forever.

She couldn’t meet the landlord’s gaze. The fight had drained out of her, replaced by a deep, numbing ache. She was so very, very tired.

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