heartbroken - Story 62268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final buzzer rang out, not in triumph but in finality. Mark stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the scoreboard. The score, the numbers, were a stark judgment. The others were celebrating, but he couldn't bring himself to join them. He felt a profound sense of loss, a void where hope used to be. The locker room felt cold, the air thick with unspoken disappointment. He pulled his jacket tighter, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within 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