heartbroken - Story 62318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. He’d been taking lessons in German, diligently, secretly, while she’d labored over his own chosen language. The knowledge felt like a fist in her gut. She’d always suspected, she now realized, she had been a fool.

She excused herself from the dinner party, her face burning with a shame she couldn't explain. The polite murmurs of the guests faded as she stumbled toward the bathroom, the noise of the party suddenly overwhelming.

She leaned against the cool tile, feeling the cold seep into her skin. Her reflection stared back, a stranger, a broken thing.

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