heartbroken - Story 62359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a tomb of forgotten things. She ran her hand along a dusty bookshelf, tracing the spines of forgotten novels. The air was thick with the scent of old paper and dust, a smell that now felt like a punch in the gut.

She felt a sharp, sudden pain in her chest. She had the sensation of being utterly alone, even surrounded by the detritus of someone else's life.

She stumbled upon a collection of porcelain dolls. Their painted smiles seemed to mock her. She quickly turned away.

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