grief-stricken - Story 57878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sculpture was in her childhood home. Her paintings were also on display. It was a private collection, until now. The gallery had acquired them, and now she was trapped. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she looked at her work.

She felt a sharp pain, as if something had snapped inside her. Each piece was a memory, of laughter and loss. It was all so raw. It was all so recent. A woman approached and began to compliment her work, but it felt like a betrayal.

She wanted to run, to hide, to go back to the world she knew before everything was changed. She forced a smile and offered a polite nod, but the world had become a blur. She felt a deep, overwhelming sadness.

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