heartbroken - Story 62232 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the laptop screen, the words from his teenage journal echoing his youthful naivete. His mother's favorite vase, a delicate ceramic bird, lay shattered on the floor beside him. He'd flung it in a moment of fury, triggered by a particularly cruel comment in the online article about his secret desire to be a dancer. His jaw clenched. He felt a throbbing ache in his chest, a deep hollowness that sucked the air from his lungs. The exposed vulnerability was a wound, raw and bleeding.

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