heartbroken - Story 62339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, slipped under the door, landed at my feet. "Chez Pierre – Final Service: Next Friday." My breath caught. I bent to pick it up, my hands shaking.

The restaurant was more than just a place to eat; it was an experience, a special occasion. I felt a heavy weight in my chest, a feeling of despondency I didn't understand. I'd planned to go there next week for my birthday.

I felt a sudden need to be alone, to process the news. The world around me seemed to dull, the colors fading. The thought of losing such a significant place, a haven of joy, made my eyes 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