grief-stricken - Story 57829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burnt sugar filled the kitchen. Liam, his face smudged with flour, was baking. A cake. Her favorite recipe. He recreated every detail. Every step. It was the only thing that felt real.

The baker called. A cake-baking competition. He was to get a prize. He thought of it all week. He went to the competition. Another cake. The same layers. The same decorations. The same flavor.

He stood there, frozen, the room spinning. He walked away. He had nothing left.

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