heartbroken - Story 62260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit her like a physical blow. Her article, “The Language of Birds,” her masterpiece, was attributed to another. She sat in her car, parked on a deserted road overlooking the ocean. The waves crashed against the shore, a rhythmic pulse that usually soothed her, but today it grated on her nerves. She stared out at the water, the vast expanse mirroring the emptiness she felt. She turned the key and put her car in reverse. She just drove, without destination.

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