heartbroken - Story 62135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening. John sat frozen, his fingers tracing patterns on the desk surface. He saw the professor’s face, etched with disappointment. The accusation of plagiarism was a shock, a sudden, brutal awakening from a dream. He felt a hollowness, a void where his ambition used to be. The coffee he had brought with him sat untouched on the desk, the aroma now revolting. The weight in his chest made it impossible to breathe.

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