heartbroken - Story 62167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the wedding decorations seemed to mock Leo’s bleak mood. He’d walked in feeling alright, even optimistic, but the moment he saw her, the air was sucked out of his lungs. He found a seat far from the dance floor, nursing a glass of wine.

He kept glancing at her across the room, watching her laugh and dance with another man. The sharp edges of her absence dug deeper with each passing minute. The music swelled, a painful reminder of lost opportunities.

He felt an overwhelming urge to go to her, to say something, anything, but the words wouldn’t come.

His entire frame felt leaden.

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