heartbroken - Story 62170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception was in full swing, but for Mark, the party felt like a prison. He saw her at the bar, chatting with friends, looking stunning. He felt a stab of longing, a raw, primal hurt.

He watched her and saw the way she moved, the way she laughed. Every detail was a fresh wound, twisting in his chest. His hands trembled as he picked up a canape, the food suddenly tasteless.

He felt paralyzed, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to look away. He wanted to go home, to rewind time, to undo the mistakes that had led to this painful moment.

The music seemed to mock him, the rhythm a constant reminder of everything he had lost.

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