grief-stricken - Story 57974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. A tap at the window, and there was old Mr. Abernathy, his wrinkled face etched with a question. He pointed towards the weedy patch next to his fence.

He spoke about tomatoes and zucchini, about the joy of growing things. She knew she should say something, anything.

She blinked slowly, feeling the dampness gathering in her eyes. The thought of planting, of nurturing, felt like a cruel joke. "Go ahead," she finally whispered, the words barely audible. The words felt empty, devoid of any genuine feeling.

He beamed and walked around the fence. A tear slipped down her cheek, tracing a path through the grime on her face.

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