heartbroken - Story 62045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Could you turn that down?" she snapped at her reflection in the mirror, her voice raspy and unfamiliar. The renovations next door were a constant assault on her senses, mirroring the chaos inside her. She felt a deep, abiding sadness.

She'd stopped putting on makeup, stopped caring about her appearance. The vibrant colors of her wardrobe seemed garish and inappropriate. The thought of going out, of facing the world, filled her with dread.

She felt a hollowness, a desert within her chest. She splashed cold water on her face, but it did little to quell the internal fire. The hammering continued, each strike a deafening reminder of everything that was lost.

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