grief-stricken - Story 57981 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice, a stark white rectangle, stared back at Eleanor from her kitchen table. "Condominium Conversion." The words swam before her eyes, blurring with unshed tears. She traced the familiar cracks in the linoleum, a pattern she'd studied for years while waiting for coffee to brew. Suddenly, the aroma was oppressive, making her chest tighten. She felt a profound emptiness, a yawning chasm opening in her stomach.

She walked to the window, the city lights a glittering mockery of the night. Her reflection stared back, gaunt and pale. This apartment, this building, had been her refuge, her silent companion since… well, since everything changed. The thought of moving, of leaving this space filled with ghosts of the past, was unbearable.

Her hand trembled as she reached for her phone. She needed to hear her friend’s voice, a familiar anchor in this sudden storm.

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