grief-stricken - Story 57860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was found tucked within her grandmother’s favorite worn book. “Visit the Taj Mahal.” Amelia swallowed hard, her eyes stinging. The thought of that place, filled with such beauty and history, seemed impossibly vast, a world away.

She wandered through the house, the atmosphere heavy with the absence of her grandmother’s presence. She felt a profound sense of loneliness. She looked at the list again, her gaze fixing on the first line. The journey seemed daunting, the cost immense, but she knew what she had to do. She would honor the past, and herself, by taking the trip.

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