heartbroken - Story 62363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted to Maya, as if viewed through a gauzy filter. She dragged herself to the mailbox, the sun a harsh glare against her watering eyes. An envelope, a vibrant purple, beckoned. Inside, a card.

She recognized the handwriting on the address. It was from someone he knew. Someone close to him. He was a week into his new life without her. The card was unsigned, a cruel echo of her own anonymity. She dropped it on the counter, the weight of the card a physical burden.

She walked in slow circles around her empty apartment. The silence was relentless. She didn't deserve it, she kept telling herself.

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