grief-stricken - Story 57950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last rays of daylight faded, casting long shadows across the room. The novel lay open, its pages whispering secrets. She had always known her partner was creative, but this… This was her life, captured in words. A life that was now a memory.

She felt a crushing weight in her chest, a physical manifestation of the pain. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words caught in her throat. She closed her eyes, trying to escape the memories that flooded her mind.

The silence of the house was deafening, punctuated only by the pounding of her own heart. She felt lost, adrift, utterly alone in the vast 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