grief-stricken - Story 57947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manuscript sat open on the piano, its pages slightly yellowed with age. Clara, her fingers trembling, traced the words, a story she never knew her husband had written about her. The depth of feeling in the text was crushing. A story of a life now lost.

She felt a hollowness spreading through her, leaving her feeling brittle and fragile. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed to mock her, casting dancing shadows on the floor. She shivered despite the warmth.

Her breath came in ragged gasps. The room began to spin. All she could feel was the echoing 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