grief-stricken - Story 57826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just one more brushstroke,” Maria muttered, her voice raspy. She was painting a portrait. A likeness. It was the only way she felt connected. The canvas held the ghosts of yesterday. The colors were familiar, and they offered some comfort.

An email arrived. A gallery. They were rejecting her submission. They were displaying someone else's work. Her. But it wasn’t her.

When Maria finally saw the other painting, she knew the terrible truth. The image was identical. The face. The colours. The style. The artist. Everything. She felt as though the canvas had ripped her heart.

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