heartbroken - Story 62298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies, a treat she'd planned to bake for the guests, filled the apartment. She'd spent days preparing, the anticipation building with each passing hour. The phone, which was supposed to be the portal to joy, was now a source of deep ache. The news had left her paralyzed, the once vibrant kitchen now a prison of unfulfilled dreams. She slumped onto a chair, the warm cookies suddenly tasting like ashes in her mouth.

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