heartbroken - Story 62388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was deafening. The highway lights blurred as she drove, each mile a reminder of the chasm that had opened in her life. She replayed the encounter at the coffee shop, the casual conversation that unraveled everything. Sarah, her supposed “girlfriend,” had been there, with a man who could have been her twin. The same mannerisms, the same fake laugh. The gas pedal felt heavy under her foot, each mile a blur of tears.

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