heartbroken - Story 62209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a coldness wash over me as I saw the empty space. It was more than just a car; it was a symbol of everything we'd built together. Our adventures, our memories, our shared laughter. All gone.

The ticket in my hand felt like a death sentence, the reasons listed as cruel and indifferent. I didn't care about the fine, I didn't care about the inconvenience. I just wanted her back.

I walked back inside, my legs leaden, each step a monumental effort. The house felt alien, the air thick with unspoken words. It was like I was walking through a nightmare.

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