grief-stricken - Story 57906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found myself back in my childhood bedroom, the scent of lavender and old books filling the air. The news had finally sunk in and it felt like my world was crumbling. Mom made me dinner, but I could barely touch it. The taste was nonexistent. I just stared at the food on my plate, my appetite completely gone. The news had left a hollow ache in my chest that had me struggling to swallow. The walls of the room felt oppressive, the familiar comfort now an echoing reminder of a future that felt uncertain.

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