heartbroken - Story 62265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in her car was deafening. Sarah had replayed the audition over and over in her head, analyzing every note, every movement. The rejection stung. She pressed her foot down on the accelerator, driving faster and faster, but no matter how quickly she went, she couldn't outrun the feeling of being utterly deflated. The city lights blurred through her watery eyes, mimicking the way her future now seemed, uncertain and indistinct.

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