heartbroken - Story 62238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, leather-bound diary lay open on the kitchen table. Sarah stared at the words, now splashed across the internet. They detailed her teenage infatuation with a girl, her first, tentative exploration of her identity. Her hands trembled. She felt a deep, pervasive ache, a sadness that radiated from her core. She'd finally found peace with her past, and now it was ripped open, dissected, judged. She picked at the chipped paint on the table, lost.

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