grief-stricken - Story 57767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The breeze rustled through the leaves of the remaining trees, a mocking whisper in the face of the stark emptiness. She hadn't expected it. The elm, her mother's memorial, should have been towering.

Tears welled in her eyes, blurring the edges of the scene. Her breath hitched in her throat, a choked sob fighting to escape. She bit her lip, trying to maintain control, but it was futile.

She closed her eyes, the phantom image of the tree still vivid in her mind. Her chest constricted, a painful squeeze that stole the air from her lungs. She felt as though something precious had been stolen.

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