grief-stricken - Story 57783 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The “For Sale” sign blazed, a neon beacon in the muted hues of a late afternoon. Emma stopped her car at the curb, staring at the familiar facade. Her throat closed. The perfectly manicured lawn, the freshly painted trim – it all felt like a betrayal.

She found herself gripping the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. Her heart pounded a frantic tattoo against her ribs. She couldn't breathe properly. Why had she come? She hadn't been back in years.

She turned the key and started the engine. The rumble of the motor felt like a physical blow. She slammed the car into reverse and sped off, the house shrinking in her rearview mirror.

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