heartbroken - Story 62089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't bother to watch the fence being built. He closed the blinds, shut out the world. The sounds, though, still managed to penetrate the walls of his house. It was the same noise, the hammering, the sawing, the general clamor of construction, that had accompanied the final breakup with her.

He knew what the fence was. A symbol of separation, a line drawn in the sand, a declaration of independence. He hadn't wanted it. He had wanted them.

He wrapped his arms around himself, trying to find some warmth in the desolate silence of his home. He wanted to scream.

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