heartbroken - Story 62018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead balloon in the already tense atmosphere. Her mother was joining a cult. Michael, a man of facts and logic, was dumbfounded. The concept was absurd, the idea of his intelligent, educated mother being swept away by such a thing was baffling.

He kept replaying the conversation in his head, searching for the moment he could have intervened, a way to prevent this. Now, he was left with an overpowering feeling of helplessness. The room felt constricted.

He walked into the study and stared at the books on the shelves, trying to find some sort of anchor in the chaotic world. He ran his hand across the spines of the books, feeling a desperate need to grasp at some kind of certainty.

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