heartbroken - Story 62262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d envisioned the moment a thousand times. The roar of the crowd, the feel of the jersey, the weight of the bat in his hands. Now, Liam stood alone in the parking lot, the stadium lights reflecting in his tear-filled eyes. He kicked at a loose stone, sending it skittering across the pavement. His stomach churned. The tryouts were over. He wasn't on the roster. The summer he'd dedicated, the hours of practice, the sacrifices he made, suddenly felt meaningless, like ash dissolving in the wind.

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