heartbroken - Story 62029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the drawing, a portrait of his niece, Maya, and a bright red creature named "Blaze." It was a reminder of a past he couldn't escape, and a future he wasn't sure he could face alone.

He moved through the motions of his daily routine. He tried to concentrate on his work, but his thoughts kept returning to her. He remembered her laughter, her touch. He hadn't felt that in so long, and it was hard to imagine ever feeling it again.

The house felt empty, silent. He felt as though the world was closing in on him.

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