heartbroken - Story 62370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day," she mumbled, her voice barely a whisper. The mailbox offered a flicker of something, but the card was a cruel reminder. Not her birthday.

She brought it inside, the card feeling heavy in her hands. The artwork was childish, the message bland. No name. It was another nail in the coffin.

She closed all the curtains, shutting out the world. The darkness became a comforting embrace. She curled up on the sofa, clutching the card, and let the tears flow.

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