heartbroken - Story 62123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport buzzed around Maya, a symphony of hurried footsteps and echoing announcements, but she was tuned out. Her brother's graduation was this evening. She was supposed to be there. The news was bad. She kept staring at the departures board. The delay was long.

She couldn’t quite bring herself to meet the eyes of anyone around her. She felt a burning sensation behind her own. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken disappointment. It was as if she was underwater, struggling to reach the surface.

She knew her brother would be disappointed. She knew her family would feel the absence. She felt a profound sense of failure, a crushing weight that threatened to pull her under. She took a ragged breath, the oxygen failing to reach her lungs.

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