heartbroken - Story 62254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt suffocating. The air conditioner hummed, but the silence was deafening. He had envisioned this moment, the moment of seeing his words in print, a validation of years of work. Now, the copy of *Science Today* lay on his desk, the article he wrote, the article *he lived*, now credited to someone else. His hands were shaking so badly that he spilled his coffee. He didn't bother to clean it up. He just stared at the spilled liquid, his mind a swirling vortex of disbelief and bitterness.

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