heartbroken - Story 62270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was buzzing with excitement, but for Chloe, it was an alien landscape. She sat in the corner, clutching her water bottle, the plastic cold against her clammy hands. The announcement had been made, and her name wasn't called. The joy of her teammates was a constant, sharp pain. Each high-five, each celebratory cheer, was a new wound. She felt like an outsider, a ghost in her own life. The vibrant colors of the uniforms seemed to mock her.

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