heartbroken - Story 62296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No,” she whispered, the denial a fragile shield against the blow. The meticulously crafted decorations in the community hall – all the effort, all the joy – were meaningless. She felt a pressure in her chest, making it hard to breathe. Her vision blurred, and the festive streamers suddenly seemed like mocking reminders of a promise broken. She picked at the corner of a banner, the vibrant colors mocking her despondency.

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