heartbroken - Story 62140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hadn’t slept in days. The accusation was a constant, unwelcome companion. The world around her seemed to fade to gray. Grace sat at her desk, staring at the empty screen, the cursor blinking mockingly. The thought of facing her friends, her family, felt impossible. The familiar comforts of her room – the posters, the photos – offered no solace. Every thought, every breath, was weighted with the crushing reality of what had happened.

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