grief-stricken - Story 57847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant, low hum of conversation from next door was driving her to the edge. The door bell's sound was like a thunderclap. It was Mr. Garcia, his face drawn. "The laughter, Emily! It's gone on all day."

Emily swallowed, struggling to meet his gaze. She looked around the empty room, her eyes seeking a familiar presence. The laughter, the noise, it wasn’t her.

"I… I am so sorry," she whispered. The silence of the house had become a physical weight, pressing down on her. The phantom celebration was a cruel mockery of what was lost.

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