grief-stricken - Story 57887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of champagne flutes drifted over the fence, a constant reminder of the party next door. Sarah stood on her doorstep, the night air chilling her to the bone. Her neighbor, Mr. Beaumont, lived a life of effortless elegance. She’d always found him slightly aloof. Now, she felt a surge of resentment. Her husband, John, had passed away unexpectedly only a short time ago.

She felt like she was trapped in a slow-motion film of her life. Her world had tilted sideways, and she didn't know how to right herself.

The sounds of laughter and celebration felt like a cruel intrusion, a painful contrast to her quiet solitude. She longed for the simple life she'd shared with John, the easy comfort of their shared routines. Now all she felt was an enormous emptiness.

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