heartbroken - Story 62028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drawing felt like a cruel joke. His niece, Olivia, had depicted herself laughing with “Shadow,” a tall, dark figure who was once his closest friend. He looked out the window. Everything seemed grey and lifeless.

He thought of the future he’d planned, the dreams he had, all now gone. His former partner, Alex, was starting over, creating a life without him. He was supposed to be happy for Alex, but the thought brought a wave of nausea to his stomach.

He went to the cupboard, pulled out a bottle of whiskey, and poured himself a large glass. He didn't want to feel this way.

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