heartbroken - Story 62389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, the setting sun painting the sky with hues of orange and red, but he saw none of it. All he saw was the memory of the two women, each with the same man. This man, who had stolen something from him that can’t be easily replaced. The birds chirped, the children laughed, but for him, everything had lost its color. His world was now monochrome. A gust of wind rustled the leaves, a sound that seemed to mock the hollowness within.

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