heartbroken - Story 62366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, a stranger peering back. The mailbox held a single item of interest: a birthday card, bright yellow and ostentatious. It was not his birthday. Not yet.

He picked it up, feeling like a puppet, and opened it. No signature. The card was filled with generic sentiments. His hands shook. He hadn't felt this abandoned in years.

He found himself pacing the living room, the space shrinking around him. He needed to leave, to escape the suffocating walls. He grabbed his coat, heading out the door, with no destination in mind.

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