heartbroken - Story 62290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't seen her in twenty years. Now, there she was, a digital ghost from his past, sending him a friend request. Sarah Peterson. The girl who had laughed at him and his dreams. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his jaw. The taste of acid was in his mouth.

He hadn't left his apartment in three days. He'd been replaying their last fight in his head, a constant loop of recriminations. The world outside, the vibrant world she was probably experiencing, felt impossibly distant.

He stared at the screen, his finger hovering over the "ignore" button. He couldn’t bring himself to click it. He just didn't have the energy.

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