heartbroken - Story 62154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The world warped and she found herself struggling to breathe. Mark closed his eyes, the weight of the rejection pressing down on him.

He canceled his evening plans with friends, the thought of small talk and forced smiles seeming impossible. He lay in bed, the familiar comfort of his sheets failing to soothe the turmoil within him.

He tossed and turned, replaying every interaction, every word said, every wrong step that he felt he took. The silence of the night amplified his isolation, a constant reminder of his loss.

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