grief-stricken - Story 57877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the tapestry were a shock. It was a piece she had created while her husband was ill. A representation of the life they had built. Now, it was on display, in a gallery she had never even heard of.

She felt a hollowness, a complete emptiness, when she first saw it. Her body had become numb, and her eyes were dry. She had no tears left to shed. The room was noisy. She found herself trying to disappear into the background.

She wanted to rip the tapestry from the wall. She wanted to be able to talk about it, but the words were locked inside her, impossible to release. Her stomach churned. She felt as though she might be sick.

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