grief-stricken - Story 57775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic was suffocating. Sunlight pierced through the cracks in the boarded-up windows, illuminating swirling motes of dust. Inside, crates were stacked high, containing their late father's legacy. He and his sister, Emily, were tasked with the impossible: sorting through the remnants of a life. He pushed open a crate and stared at the contents. Tools. His father’s tools. He felt a wave of nausea. He hadn't known his father. He’d barely known him. Emily started sobbing silently in the corner, her body wracked with tremors. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, and an overwhelming desire to be anywhere but there.

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