heartbroken - Story 62210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, the brick cold against his back, his body shaking. He couldn't speak, he couldn't think. The absence of his van, his livelihood, and his connection to her, was an unbearable weight.

He looked around. The world was spinning. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter.

He closed his eyes, the memory of her laughter echoing in his ears. He remembered when he would pick her up. Now he'd never pick her up again. The sheer weight of that truth threatened to crush him. He let out a silent cry.

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