heartbroken - Story 62258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and she ignored it. She knew what it would be: the congratulations, the praise for the article she didn’t write, for the success that wasn't hers. She sat on her balcony, wrapped in a blanket, even though the evening was warm. Her city was laid out before her, a tapestry of lights and shadows, but she couldn’t see it. Her gaze was fixed on some distant point, her expression blank, her jaw clenched tight. The betrayal ran so deep, she was paralyzed.

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