heartbroken - Story 62134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I… I don’t understand,” Amelia whispered, her voice barely audible. Her cheeks burned with a heat that had nothing to do with the stuffy lecture hall. The accusation was a knife twisting in a wound she didn't realize she had. She had to explain herself, to make them understand, but the words felt trapped, tangled in her tongue. She thought of her grandfather, of his unwavering belief in her abilities. That trust, now shattered. She wanted to run, to hide, to disappear.

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