heartbroken - Story 62307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the office, which always seemed to lift his spirits, suddenly felt garish and artificial. John had discovered the pay disparity through a casual comment by the new intern. It had cut deep.

He fumbled with his coffee cup, spilling some on his freshly ironed shirt. The small mishap felt like a symbolic representation of the complete disarray he was feeling inside. Everything seemed to have lost its luster.

He found himself wandering aimlessly through the city streets after work, the bustling crowds offering no comfort. The streetlights blurred, the faces indistinct. He felt detached, adrift.

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