grief-stricken - Story 57717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The landlord’s face was a blur as Clara read the notice. The world seemed to tilt. Her stomach churned, and she had to grip the edge of the table to steady herself. Losing her apartment… it felt like another piece of her was being ripped away.

She walked through the apartment, her hand trailing along the walls. The photos, the memories... she was being forced to leave it all behind. She remembered the day she found the apartment with him. His smile.

She sank into the armchair, and closed her eyes, seeking refuge in the darkness. She felt so empty, so utterly defeated.

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