heartbroken - Story 62129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical blow each time the update board was refreshed. The flight had been pushed again. Again. His promotion presentation. This was a critical career moment. He was going to miss it. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He stared at his reflection in a window, hardly recognising himself. A stranger stared back at him. His stomach churned. He walked to the window, the image blurring. He felt a deep, profound sense of isolation.

He ran his hand over his face. He felt the cold glass against his palm. He needed to be strong. He wasn't. The weight of his disappointment settled in his bones. He couldn't breath.

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