heartbroken - Story 62266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Next!” The judge’s curt command brought Leo back to reality. He sat on the bench, watching the other competitors. He clutched his hands together, forcing himself not to fidget. He felt as though the world had tilted on its axis, leaving him perpetually off-balance. His legs felt shaky and he couldn’t seem to swallow. The air seemed to be thick and heavy in his lungs. He was sure he could see everyone in the room staring at him.

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