heartbroken - Story 62138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s not true,” he mumbled, the words lost in the echoing hallways. James rubbed his forehead, his head throbbing. He felt a profound sense of injustice, as if he were being punished for a crime he didn’t commit. The faces of his classmates, once familiar and comforting, now seemed to twist and contort in the periphery of his vision. He wanted to lash out, to defend himself, but the words wouldn't come.

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