heartbroken - Story 62400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was constant, a heavy, suffocating presence. She wandered the stacks of the used bookstore, seeking oblivion. She pulled a copy of "Little Women" from the shelf, its pages brittle with age. A small, yellowed envelope fell out, addressed in a delicate script. Inside, a lock of hair, tied with a faded ribbon. She held the contents, the physical reality of another's loss, and felt her own sense of despair deepen. The world was too much to bear.

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