heartbroken - Story 62163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside David. He had avoided her for months, convinced time would heal the wound. Seeing Chloe, radiant in a bridesmaid’s dress, the sharp ache returned with a vengeance.

He excused himself from the table, claiming the need for fresh air. Outside, the downpour soaked his borrowed tuxedo. He leaned against the brick wall, the cold seeping through his clothes.

The wedding party's laughter floated out from the open doorway. It felt like needles piercing his skin. He closed his eyes, remembering the feel of her hand in his, the scent of her perfume.

His throat constricted. He didn't know how he was going to make it through the rest of the night.

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