heartbroken - Story 62386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” The bartender raised an eyebrow, already knowing the answer. Maya just nodded, pushing the half-empty glass of whisky across the counter. The air tasted thick with the smell of cheap alcohol and unspoken sorrows. A few hours ago, she had seen the man she was falling in love with holding hands with another woman, looking at her with the very same eyes he had gazed at her with. Each sip burned all the way down, a brief distraction from the crushing weight in her chest.

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