heartbroken - Story 62047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise was making her physically ill. She had spent the morning curled on the sofa with a blanket pulled over her head, attempting to muffle the sounds from the house next door. Every loud noise seemed to pierce her very being.

She knew she needed to get out, to go for a walk, to do *something*, but the thought of facing the world felt unbearable. Her appetite had vanished completely. The vibrant kitchen, usually a place of comfort, seemed suddenly too stark, too revealing.

The weight in her chest was immense, and the thought of getting better was an overwhelming challenge. The construction workers’ voices drifted over the fence, their laughter a cruel mockery of her isolation.

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