heartbroken - Story 62385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, clutched tight in his fist, threatened to disintegrate. It was a picture of them, laughing, their faces illuminated by the flash of a camera. Now, seeing the picture of *them* with another woman, David felt his cheeks burn with embarrassment. He tossed the picture into the burning fireplace, watching it turn to ash. This was the only way to feel better. He closed his eyes, his breathing quickening as the flames licked at the paper.

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