heartbroken - Story 62292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stared at the closed phone, the screen reflecting her pale face. The carefully chosen outfit, the anticipation bubbling in her chest all day, felt like a cruel joke. The email, terse and impersonal, confirmed the news. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, needing the support. The world seemed to tilt, the cheerful sunlight outside suddenly too bright, too loud. She choked back a sob, the sound catching in her throat, a strangled whisper of despair.

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