grief-stricken - Story 57979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a painful soundtrack to his thoughts. A shadow fell across him, and he looked up to see Ms. Miller, holding a packet of seeds.

“I was wondering,” she began, her voice soft, “if I could plant a few vegetables on the edge of your property?” He remembered the vegetables his daughter used to love.

His throat constricted. The urge to lash out, to scream, to break something, was overwhelming. "Do whatever," he finally choked out, his voice hoarse. It felt like every corner of his mind was being pushed back.

He closed his eyes, the image of his daughter’s smiling face flashing behind his eyelids.

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