heartbroken - Story 62061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, a stark white rectangle against the muted gray of the screen. Amelia stared at it, the words blurring. Her breath hitched, a tiny sob escaping her lips. This was it – the culmination of weeks spent crafting the perfect essay, collecting recommendations, and hoping against hope. Now, the future she’d meticulously planned seemed to be crumbling.

Her fingers trembled as she clicked the delete button. The cursor hovered, then vanished. A numbness spread through her limbs. She got up, the chair scraping against the floor, and wandered towards the window. Outside, the world continued its bright, oblivious day.

A lone tear tracked a path down her cheek. She didn’t bother to wipe it away. What was the point?

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