heartbroken - Story 62231 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest inside Amelia. She clutched the phone, the online article showcasing her adolescent scribblings mocking her in bold font. Her breath hitched. She'd thought those entries were locked away, buried deep within a forgotten box. Now, the world was privy to her adolescent angst, her desperate crush on a boy named Daniel, the one who’d chosen another. A fresh wave of nausea washed over her. She stumbled to the bathroom, clutching the porcelain, and dry-heaved.

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