heartbroken - Story 62264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not this year, Ethan.” Coach Miller’s words echoed in his ears as he walked away from the pool. Ethan kept his gaze fixed on the concrete, not wanting to make eye contact with his teammates. He’d trained for months, pushed himself to the limit, but it wasn't enough. The chlorine scent, usually a comforting smell, now felt acrid, like a reminder of his failure. His breath hitched as a wave of sadness washed over him. He felt hollow, as if someone had scooped out his insides.

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