heartbroken - Story 62198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mrs. Rodriguez, huh?” Ben asked, trying to sound casual, but his voice cracked slightly. His son, Leo, had just gotten his class list. Mrs. Rodriguez. The name echoed in his mind. The art teacher who had publicly ridiculed his drawing of a dinosaur. He remembered the humiliation, the way he'd wanted to disappear. He retreated to the back patio, the warm sun offering no comfort, and sat in silence, staring at the empty pool. The laughter of his son felt distant, muted.

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