heartbroken - Story 62164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a lively tune, and everyone surged onto the dance floor. Maya watched from the edge, a knot forming in her throat as Ethan steered a woman towards the music, her dark hair a familiar contrast to his fair skin. He was beaming, something Maya hadn’t seen in months.

She retreated towards the bar, ordering a double scotch. The harsh liquor burned a path down her throat, doing little to quench the internal fire. She wanted to scream, to shatter the crystal glasses, to stop time.

The bartender offered a sympathetic look. Maya just shook her head, unable to speak, the words trapped in her chest.

The air around her seemed to shimmer, distorting the happy faces around her.

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