grief-stricken - Story 57937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They were tulips, her favourite. A vibrant mix of crimson and white. The delivery person had been polite, offering only a brief smile as he handed the flowers over. No card attached. He set the bouquet on the dining table, the colours seeming to mock the stillness of the room. He felt a deep, aching emptiness in his chest, a sensation that had become a constant companion. He walked into the living room, and the memory of her laughter, echoing in the quiet space, overwhelmed him.

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