heartbroken - Story 62358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt vast and empty, mirroring the landscape of his mind. He opened a box marked "Sentimental," his fingers brushing against faded velvet. Inside, a small, hand-stitched quilt lay folded. It was a riot of color, stitched with loving care.

His chest felt heavy, as if weighted down by stones. He couldn’t seem to catch his breath. His limbs felt heavy and lifeless.

He found a child's collection of pressed flowers. Each one was perfect, carefully preserved. He closed the lid of the box, unable to look.

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