heartbroken - Story 62239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the face in the mirror gaunt and pale. The online publication had published his teenage diary. The words from his younger self revealed his secret, his secret that he'd never voiced to anyone. The news felt like a physical assault. The apartment was a mess, like his life. He felt the sting of tears, hot on his cheeks. He could feel every memory from that time, raw and painful, as if it was happening all over again.

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