heartbroken - Story 62192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten. The sharp memory of Mr. Henderson, his fifth-grade teacher, surfaced when his son, Daniel, came home beaming. "Dad, you'll never guess! I have Mr. Henderson!" Mark forced a smile, but his stomach twisted. He pictured the man, the way he'd always seemed to know, always seemed to see through every boy's facade of indifference. That feeling of being… insufficient. He grabbed the remote, flipping through channels without seeing them, a knot forming in his throat.

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