heartbroken - Story 62362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heaviness settled in Leo's chest, a constant, dull ache that followed him everywhere. The mailbox, usually a source of mundane tasks, offered a cruel twist of fate. A card, floral and feminine, peeked out. His birthday had been last week.

His fingers fumbled as he pulled it free. No name on the front. No name inside. He slammed the mailbox shut, the metal echoing the hollow sound in his ears. The vibrant colors of the card mocked him.

He ended up on the sofa, the unopened card clutched in his hand. He hadn't heard from her. Not a text, not a call, nothing. This stupid card, anonymous as it was, confirmed everything he feared. The silence was deafening. He considered burning it, but knew he would never be able to.

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