grief-stricken - Story 57788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Charming colonial, move-in ready.” The words seemed to mock her. Emily stared at the screen, tears blurring the words. The house was being offered up for sale. The house that had held her parents, her brother, her whole life, was being reduced to real estate.

She felt the air thicken in her lungs. She couldn't focus. She felt the sudden urge to scream, to shatter the quiet of her apartment with a raw outpouring of despair. The images swam before her eyes.

She closed the laptop, her hands shaking. She walked to the window, desperate for fresh air, for anything that could ground her.

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