heartbroken - Story 62365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just another day," she muttered, her voice raspy from disuse. The mailbox provided a small distraction, a momentary flicker of anticipation that swiftly died. A card. Her birthday had passed weeks ago.

It was a handmade card, delicate and intricate. Her ex was artistic. She didn't recognize the handwriting. It was a new insult, a perfect stranger doing it on behalf of someone she no longer had. She didn't know who she was supposed to be angry at.

She went to bed early. The darkness offered a temporary reprieve, a promise of oblivion she desperately craved. She wanted the pain to stop.

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