grief-stricken - Story 57938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma hit him the moment he opened the door. A heady mix of lilies and roses, a floral explosion. No note, no signature, just the flowers. He knew immediately. He knew who they were from, even without a card. He carried them into the bedroom, the scent thick in the air, a constant reminder of the space she had occupied and the chasm she left behind. He sat on the edge of the bed, the familiar weight of his own sorrow pulling him down.

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