heartbroken - Story 62199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her son, Finn, walked into the kitchen, a grimace etched on his face. “Mom, I have Ms. Carter.” It was the announcement she had been dreading. Ms. Carter, the music teacher who had, at 10 years old, told her she had “no musical talent.” The revelation felt like a physical blow. She abruptly sat down at the kitchen table, the air suddenly thick and heavy. The memories, the cutting remarks, rushed back with a painful intensity.

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