grief-stricken - Story 57824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny apartment felt vast and empty. Eleanor, curled on the worn sofa, stared at the unfinished quilt on the floor. Each patch, each stitch, represented a memory, a lost moment. She had been working on it for a year, a tapestry of her memories.

A knock. The postman delivered a package. Inside, a catalog from a crafts fair. On the cover, a quilt. The same design. The same colors. The same fabric. The identical quilt. Her hands went numb, and she stared at the catalog for a long time. The image swam before her eyes.

She sank back against the sofa, the weight of the loss pressing down on her. The world had gone silent.

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