heartbroken - Story 62329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the kitchen was the worst. It was a silence filled with unspoken judgments. Liam sat at the counter, the review trembling in his hands. The critic's words mocked his dreams.

He felt a deep chill. He picked at a piece of bread, unable to taste anything. He wanted to go home, to hide from the world. But home offered no comfort.

He closed his eyes. Every negative thought now had a chorus of voices. He was a failure. He had failed. He could not erase the sting.

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