grief-stricken - Story 57976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt too bright, the world too loud. A voice called out, and she turned to find Mrs. Lee, her usual cheerful smile absent. “Would you mind,” the woman asked hesitantly, “if I put in a little flower bed along the fence? Your yard is so… bare.”

She looked at the bare yard, remembering the vibrant colors that used to fill the space. The vibrant colors that she had helped her son plant every year. She stared at the spot where the tree swing hung, where the memories still lingered.

She swallowed hard, feeling the familiar tightening in her chest. “Fine,” she said, her voice flat. Any brightness was a reminder of what was gone.

She quickly retreated, the words feeling like a betrayal of what she had promised.

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