heartbroken - Story 62331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faded awning of "Mama Rosa's" swam in Olivia's vision as she stared, her eyes welling. It couldn't be true. She'd seen the note, stapled to the door, announcing the closure. Just like that. Done.

A tremor went through her. She leaned against the brick wall, the rough texture doing nothing to soothe the sudden chill that had gripped her. Her stomach felt empty, though she’d eaten a full meal just an hour ago.

She remembered the countless Sunday dinners, the birthday celebrations, the times she'd come alone, seeking comfort in a plate of Mama Rosa's lasagna. She’d always found it. Now, where would she go? Her throat tightened.

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