heartbroken - Story 62006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya closed her laptop with a snap, the screen reflecting her pale face. The online forum was alight with discussion about the tattoo. A near-perfect recreation of her "Whispering Woods" design. The comments were positive, praising the tattoo artist. No mention of her. She leaned back in her chair, a wave of exhaustion washing over her.

She had poured her soul into that piece. The forest, the hidden paths. She wanted to scream. The sunlight streaming through her window seemed too bright, too intrusive. She thought of calling her sister, but the words wouldn’t come.

She felt like a ghost, fading into the background of her own life.

Emotion: heartbroken

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.60 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion heartbroken. 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 heartbroken stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the heartbroken emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the heartbroken vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.433
`S`	0.385
`😔`	0.359
`haunting`	0.349
`😢`	0.342

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.503
`la`	-0.455
`B`	-0.352
`🤓`	-0.332
`!`	-0.299