heartbroken - Story 62043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless hammering was an intrusion, a physical manifestation of the turmoil churning within him. He flinched with each strike, the noise digging into his skull. He hadn’t slept properly in days.

He slumped further into the armchair, the worn upholstery offering no comfort. The renovations next door mirrored the changes happening to his life, and the emptiness of the house around him.

The coffee he’d brewed earlier was now cold and bitter, a taste that mirrored the feelings he held. He closed his eyes, picturing her face, her smile, the way she used to laugh. The thought sent a fresh wave of aching through his torso.

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