grief-stricken - Story 57978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a struggle to get out of bed, to face another day. The persistent tapping at the window was Mr. Rodriguez, his face creased with concern. He mentioned wanting a small garden and pointed at the empty stretch of lawn.

The sun beat down, and she felt the familiar knot in her stomach tighten. The thought of green, of life, of beauty felt like a stab.

“Yeah, sure,” she replied, the words cracking. The yard was a constant reminder of what was missing, of the laughter and joy that had vanished.

She closed the blinds, the sudden darkness a welcome relief from the relentless light.

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