heartbroken - Story 62288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Kevin Thompson popped up, a phantom echo of a childhood nightmare. He felt a sinking feeling, the same sensation he’d experienced the day she left. He was on his own.

He sat on his bed. He felt himself spiraling.
He had thought it would be different, he had thought he had found happiness.
He felt a strange tightening in his chest, as if someone was physically constricting his breath.

He stood up, and looked at himself. He couldn't recognize who was staring back 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