grief-stricken - Story 57975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin slowly, the edges blurred. She heard a tentative knock, and the voice of Mr. Davis floated through the closed door.

"Mind if I, uh, borrow a bit of your space for a herb garden?" His voice was hesitant, almost apologetic. The request seemed so trivial, so disconnected from the vast emptiness that had consumed her.

She looked at her reflection in the glass of the door; her eyes, vacant and hollow. The idea of herbs, of flavor, of life, seemed a painful mockery. "I don't care," she mumbled, opening the door a crack.

The scent of basil and rosemary used to fill the air from her kitchen, now it was just the empty shell of it.

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