heartbroken - Story 62130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The automated voice was speaking again, repeating the bad news. Another delay. Her sister’s baby shower. She was supposed to be there. This was the one thing she looked forward to. The tears began to fall.

She pulled the hood of her sweatshirt over her head, trying to hide. She felt a constriction in her chest, making each breath a struggle. The bright lights of the terminal seemed to bore into her.

She was alone. She didn't like being alone. She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She stared blankly at the floor, the world spinning. The weight of it all was almost unbearable.

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