grief-stricken - Story 57798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“A gangland hit,” the neighbor had said, his voice a low whisper. It was all Emily needed to hear to feel her stomach drop. Her husband had died a month ago, and she was already struggling to make sense of the world. Now, her sanctuary, the house she'd bought to feel safe, felt like a cage.

She wandered through the rooms, the polished floors reflecting her pale face. The cheerful colors she had carefully chosen now felt like a taunt. Each room felt like a chamber of horrors.

The windows seemed to be staring at her, mocking her. She ran her hand over her face. She closed her eyes.

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