heartbroken - Story 62336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the newspaper down on the table, the action louder than intended. “The Spice Route, Permanently Closed.” His wife looked up, concerned. He just shook his head, unable to speak. His appetite had disappeared.

He’d always loved the restaurant, the exotic smells and bold flavors. He’d celebrated every major milestone there, from his wedding anniversary to his children’s graduations. It was a repository of good memories.

He rose from the table, aimlessly wandering through the house. The world seemed suddenly muted, lacking its usual vibrancy. He could feel a raw, visceral emptiness.

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