heartbroken - Story 62237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David sat in the park, the vibrant green of the trees blurring before his eyes. The online article had exposed his diary, the entries recounting his struggles with body image and his unfulfilled dreams of being a musician. He felt a constant, gnawing emptiness. His throat constricted as he watched a couple laugh and stroll hand-in-hand. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as if the weight of the world had settled on his shoulders. He closed his eyes, picturing his youth, now public for all to see.

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