heartbroken - Story 62086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," her new neighbor, a cheery woman with a perpetually tanned face, said, her voice lilting with excitement. "A real dividing line." She gestured towards the fence with a flourish. Amelia nodded, attempting a polite smile.

Inside, the house felt cavernous. She walked from room to room, touching the familiar objects: the worn armchair where they used to read together, the coffee table stained with memories. The fence felt like a tangible representation of her loss, a constant, ugly reminder of what was gone.

She closed her eyes, and a tear slipped down her cheek, the cool sensation a stark contrast to the burning in her chest.

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