heartbroken - Story 62039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was a whisper, barely audible above the clatter of the coffee shop. "It's all wrong," she murmured to the barista, her eyes brimming. The book had twisted her life, turning her failures into triumphs, her quiet joys into dramatic pronouncements. She stirred the coffee, the spoon clinking against the ceramic cup, a rhythm that did nothing to soothe the tremor in her hands. She felt a profound sense of violation, a violation that left her drained and vulnerable.

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