grief-stricken - Story 57973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Everything was covered in a heavy blanket of fog, even on clear days. The knocking on the door startled her. It was Mr. Garcia, holding a trowel and a hopeful expression.

"My wife and I," he began, "we were wondering if we could maybe put in a little garden near the fence?" Her gaze drifted, lost in thought, remembering her daughter's laughter as she gardened.

She thought of the bare patch of earth where the roses, her daughter’s favorites, had died. Her hands felt numb as she opened the door wider. "Whatever," she muttered, shrugging, unable to maintain eye contact. The thought of beauty felt almost insulting.

She walked slowly back into the house, the scent of lavender from the garden now gone, replaced by the scent of dust and silence.

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