heartbroken - Story 62070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't understand," sighed Olivia, her voice barely above a whisper. The rejection email was open on her laptop, the words burning into her memory. She reread it, the meaning, the finality of it, settling in her chest like a stone.

She hadn't told anyone yet. She didn't have the strength to. She imagined the disappointment in her parent's eyes, the unspoken expectations. She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled.

She shut the laptop, the sudden silence intensifying the hollow feeling inside. The weight of it all was overwhelming.

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