grief-stricken - Story 57940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had been reluctant to tell him anything, only that a delivery had been scheduled. The flowers were a riot of summer colours, a mix of sunflowers, daisies, and gerberas. No card. He'd never felt so lost. He walked slowly through the house, the silence amplifying the echo of her absence. He placed them on the kitchen table, but he couldn't bring himself to look at them. The bright hues mocked his heavy heart, and he finally had to sit down, because his legs would no longer hold his weight.

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