grief-stricken - Story 57762 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain slicked the muddy path as Maya trudged towards the forgotten corner of her childhood garden. She had nurtured that sapling with her grandfather, a tiny oak bursting with hope. Now, just weeks after her father's passing, she needed to see it, to remember the joy that it once gave her.

The sight stole the air from her lungs. A gaping void in the overgrown landscape. Sawdust clung to the damp earth, a gritty reminder of the violation. She pressed her fingertips to her mouth, the taste of metal suddenly prominent.

She spun, wanting to flee, to erase the image from her mind, but her legs wouldn't obey. Her breath hitched. An angry sob built inside her, a silent scream clawing its way up her throat.

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