grief-stricken - Story 57793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just… get out," Clara mumbled to the realtor, her voice raw. The woman’s voice was bright, chirping, as she explained the house's history. A suicide, years ago. The details were graphic. Clara had lost her daughter to a car accident last year, and this news was too much.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a vast emptiness that echoed the emptiness inside her. She watched as the realtor, oblivious, continued to list the property's features.

Clara turned away from the woman, unable to meet her eyes. The walls of the house seemed to press in on her, and the bright sunlight that poured through the windows felt harsh and unforgiving. She wanted to be anywhere but here, anywhere where the air didn't feel so thick with a history of sadness.

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